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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.
Three members of a California foster family pleaded guilty to abusing children in their care, including three of the Turpin siblings after their harrowing escape from their parents' “House of ...
In The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin, Fielding (The Mighty Boosh, The Great British Bake Off) stars as “the most famous but least likely of highway robbers, whose success is ...
More than half of the 13 siblings held captive in their California house of horrors are starting to get the normal life their parents denied them.
[2] [3] He was elder brother and trainer of the more famous Randolph Turpin, who became world middleweight champion after beating Sugar Ray Robinson in 1951. [4] Dick was the son of Lionel Turpin who had been born in British Guyana and his wife, Beatrice Elizabeth Whitehouse. He had two brothers Jack, who was a featherweight and Randolph, a ...
Charles Murray Turpin (1878–1946), member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania; Clément Turpin (born 1982), French football referee; David and Louise Turpin, an American couple arrested in 2018 for child abuse; David H. Turpin (born 1956), Canadian academic; Dick Turpin (died 1739), English highwayman
Noel Fielding stars in Apple TV+'s 'The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin,' a comedic take on the 18th century British highwayman.
Randolph Adolphus Turpin (7 June 1928 – 17 May 1966), better known as Randy Turpin, was a British boxer active in the 1940s and 1950s. In 1951 he became world middleweight champion when he defeated Sugar Ray Robinson .