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Dick Turpin

1705 - 1739

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dick Turpin has received more than 2,377,038 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Dick Turpin is the 214th most popular extremist (down from 190th in 2019), the 3,249th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,264th in 2019) and the 15th most popular British Extremist.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Dick Turpin ranks 214 out of 283. Before him are John Bodkin Adams, Ernst Zündel, Christopher Scarver, William Bonin, Dawood Ibrahim, and Jonathan Wild. After him are Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi, Ottis Toole, Marshall Applewhite, Alexander Pichushkin, Nguyễn Văn Trỗi, and Gary Gilmore.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1705, Dick Turpin ranks 16. Before him are Peter Artedi, Philipp Stamma, Maximilian Ulysses Browne, Franciszka Urszula Radziwiłłowa, Gerhard Friedrich Müller, and Davit Guramishvili. After him is Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke. Among people deceased in 1739, Dick Turpin ranks 11. Before him are Marie Anne de Bourbon, James Anderson, Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach, Ernest Louis, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Reinhard Keiser, and Cosmas Damian Asam. After him is George Lillo.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Dick Turpin ranks 3,249 out of 8,785. Before him are Alan Bennett (1934), Martin McGuinness (1950), Jonathan Wild (1683), Andy Goldsworthy (1956), Davy Jones (1945), and Lady Byron (1792). After him are John Selden (1584), William Roxburgh (1751), Mike Spence (1936), Leonard Whiting (1950), Madge Syers (1881), and Jennifer Saunders (1958).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United Kingdom

Among extremists born in United Kingdom, Dick Turpin ranks 15. Before him are Mary Ann Cotton (1832), Peter Sutcliffe (1946), Guy Burgess (1911), Amelia Dyer (1837), John Bodkin Adams (1899), and Jonathan Wild (1683). After him are John Christie (1899), Howard Marks (1945), Stuart Christie (1946), Colin Pitchfork (1960), Beverley Allitt (1968), and Tommy Robinson (1982).

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