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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.
The execution site was often referred to as "York Tyburn" after the original Tyburn gallows in Middlesex. [9] [10] Probably the most famous people to be executed there were Rhys ap Maredudd, a Welsh nobleman and rebel, hanged in 1292, and Dick Turpin, who was hanged in 1739.
Originally a monthly bulletin of executions, produced by the Keeper of Newgate Prison in London, the Calendar's title was appropriated by other publishers, who put out biographical chapbooks about notorious criminals such as Sawney Bean, Dick Turpin, and Moll Cutpurse.
Richard "Dick" Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, murderers of the Clutter family (14 April 1965) Arthur Lucas and Ronald Turpin, murderers, executed side by side in the last executions performed in Canada (11 December 1962) Adolf Eichmann, German Nazi major organizer of the Holocaust and war criminal (31 May 1962)
By 1981 the cells in the basement of the Debtor's Prison were used to recreate Victorian and Edwardian workshops, including a jet workshop, a comb maker, a wheelwright, and a pipe-maker. It also included a 'condemned cell' where, by tradition, Dick Turpin was held before his execution in 1739. [6]
Noel Fielding stars in Apple TV+'s 'The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin,' a comedic take on the 18th century British highwayman.
Noel Fielding trades pastry for pistols in the new mouthful of a TV series “The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin,” a swashbuckling romp that's miles from the genteel tent of “The ...
More completely made-up adventures await Dick Turpin, now that Apple TV+ has renewed the Noel Fielding-led comedy for Season 2. In The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin, Fielding (The ...