Jonathan Wild

(1683-1725)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Wild, Jonathan, 1682?-1725 DNB: Wild, Jonathan (bap. 1683, d. 1725), thief-taker LBT ID: JoWild1725 VIAF ID: 35698000 LOC ID: n50019233	B/BAP: 1683-05-06 DIED: 1725-05-24
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Thief-taker and criminal, the model for Peachum in Gay's Beggar's Opera (1728) and the subject of Fielding's fictional Jonathan Wild the Great (1743).
REFERENCES TO Jonathan Wild: Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Literary Reminiscences and Memoirs of Thomas Campbell (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1860) Chapter 6 Found 1: ¶ 37 Chapter 9 Found 1: ¶ 6 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chapter XVIII. Found 1: ¶ 28