Dick Turpin

(1705-1739)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Turpin, Richard, 1706-1739 DNB: Turpin, Richard [Dick] (bap. 1705, d. 1739), highwayman LBT ID: DiTurpi1739 VIAF ID: 6012234 LOC ID: nr93040271	B/BAP: 1705-09-21 DIED: 1739-04-07
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English highwayman and horse thief executed at York; his story was popularized by William Harrison Ainsworth's novel Rookwood (1834).
REFERENCES TO Dick Turpin: Charles Lamb to Charles Abraham Elton, [17 August 1824?] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 2 Julius Millingen, Memoirs of the Affairs of Greece (London: John Rodwell, 1831) Chapter XVIII Found 1: ¶ 6 Sydney Smith to Lady Grey, 22 April 1844 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1: ¶ 1 Saba Holland, A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Letters 1844 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1824 Found 1: ¶ 4