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Dick Turpin

1705 - 1739

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Richard Turpin (bapt. 21 September 1705 – 7 April 1739) 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 a poacher, burglar, horse thief, and killer. He is also known for a fictional 200-mile (320 km) overnight ride from London to York on his horse Black Bess, a story that was made famous by the Victorian novelist William Harrison Ainsworth almost 100 years after Turpin's death. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Dick Turpin is the 213th most popular extremist (up from 214th in 2019), the 3,321st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,249th in 2019) and the 14th most popular British Extremist.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Dick Turpin ranks 213 out of 283. Before him are Stanley Williams, Ibn al-Khattab, Stand Watie, Ahmed Jabari, Richard Speck, and Luis Posada Carriles. After him are Mary Ann Cotton, Ernst Zündel, Yoo Young-chul, Robert Berdella, William Bonin, and Amparo Poch y Gascón.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1705, Dick Turpin ranks 16. Before him are Gerhard Friedrich Müller, Maximilian Ulysses Browne, Franciszka Urszula Radziwiłłowa, Sophie Caroline of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, Philipp Stamma, and Davit Guramishvili. After him is Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke. Among people deceased in 1739, Dick Turpin ranks 11. Before him are Saliha Sultan, James Anderson, Reinhard Keiser, Ernest Louis, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach, and Cosmas Damian Asam. After him is George Lillo.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Dick Turpin ranks 3,322 out of 8,785. Before him are Jeremy Bulloch (1945), James MacMillan (1959), Maurice Dobb (1900), Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet (1772), Walter Map (1140), and Chris Waddle (1960). After him are Natalie Dormer (1982), Mary Delany (1700), John Biscoe (1794), Pete Ham (1947), Christopher Priest (1943), and Benedict Wong (1971).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United Kingdom

Among extremists born in United Kingdom, Dick Turpin ranks 14. Before him are John Adams (1767), Peter Sutcliffe (1946), Mary Bell (1957), Jonathan Wild (1683), Guy Burgess (1911), and Amelia Dyer (1837). After him are Mary Ann Cotton (1832), Tommy Robinson (1982), John Bodkin Adams (1899), Howard Marks (1945), Stuart Christie (1946), and Colin Pitchfork (1960).

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