Dick Turpin, English criminal (born 1705)

Dick Turpin

English highwayman (1705–1739)

Richard Turpin was an English highwayman whose exploits were romanticised following his execution in York for horse theft. Turpin may have followed his father's trade as a butcher early in his life but, by the early 1730s, he had joined a gang of deer thieves and, later, became…