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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 2,186,325 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Dick Turpin is the 190th most popular extremist (down from 172nd in 2019), the 3,272nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,062nd in 2019) and the 15th most popular British Extremist.

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  • 17

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  • 1.86

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  • 3.50

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Dick Turpin ranks 190 out of 209. Before him are Jonathan Wild, Irmgard Möller, Alexander Pichushkin, Nguyễn Văn Trỗi, Ahmad Sa'adat, and Marshall Applewhite. After him are Joseph Paul Franklin, Gary Gilmore, Édouard Vaillant, Zacarias Moussaoui, John Hinckley Jr., and Ahmed Jabari.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1705, Dick Turpin ranks 15. Before him are Peter Artedi, Maximilian Ulysses Browne, Gerhard Friedrich Müller, Philipp Stamma, Davit Guramishvili, and Sophie Caroline of Brandenburg-Kulmbach. After him is Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke. Among people deceased in 1739, Dick Turpin ranks 11. Before him are Charles François de Cisternay du Fay, Saliha Sultan, Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach, Ernest Louis, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Reinhard Keiser, and Cosmas Damian Asam.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Dick Turpin ranks 3,272 out of 7,765. Before him are Magnus Erlendsson, Earl of Orkney (1075), Biff Byford (1951), Philip Barker-Webb (1793), Henry Bishop (1786), Andrew Planche (1727), and Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778). After him are Diana Dors (1931), Mike Spence (1936), Catherine Bell (1968), Joan Aiken (1924), Rhona Mitra (1976), and Dorothy Garrod (1892).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United Kingdom

Among extremists born in United Kingdom, Dick Turpin ranks 15. Before him are Guy Burgess (1911), Fred West (1941), John Haigh (1909), John Christie (1899), John Bodkin Adams (1899), and Jonathan Wild (1683). After him are Howard Marks (1945), Stuart Christie (1946), Beverley Allitt (1968), Colin Pitchfork (1960), and Tommy Robinson (1982).

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