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). | |