Richard Dick Turpin (bap. 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 profession as a butcher early in life but by the early 1730s he had joined a gang of deer thieves and later became a poacher burglar horse thief and killer.
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