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grocer, merchant, chandler, highwayman "Captain" James Maclaine (occasionally "Maclean", "MacLean", or "Maclane") (1724 – 3 October 1750) was an Irish man of a respectable presbyterian family who had a brief but notorious career as a mounted highwayman in London with his accomplice William Plunkett .
A hanged highwayman and gang leader who suffered the press ordeal for not pleading. Philip Twysden: 1714–1752 United Kingdom: The Bishop of Raphoe. Richard 'Dick' Turpin: 1705-1739 United Kingdom: He was also known by his alias 'John Palmer'. Márton Vidróczki: Hungary: James Whitney: 1660-1693 United Kingdom: Known by contemporaries as the ...
Joseph "Blueskin" Blake (baptised 31 October 1700 – 11 November 1724) was an 18th-century English highwayman and prison escapee.. There are no contemporary pictures of Blake but he is featured in the second image of "The Last Scene" engraved by George Cruikshank in 1839 to illustrate William Harrison Ainsworth's serialised novel, Jack Sheppard.
A highwayman was a robber who stole from travellers. ... English highwaymen often laid in wait on the main roads radiating from London.
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.
Claude Duval's House, in Holloway, 1825. The legend goes that before long, Duval became a successful highwayman who robbed the passing stagecoaches on the roads to London, especially Holloway between Highgate and Islington and, that unlike most other highwaymen, he distinguished himself with rather gentlemanly behaviour and fashionable clothes.
For about seven to twelve years, [4] William Spiggot was a highwayman and the leader of a gang of at least eight men. [5] He performed his robberies on the roads from London to Hounslow Heath, Kingston and Ware. [3]
On his return, where he arrived at Portsmouth, he left immediately for London, telling the ship's captain that he was going to raise the promised reward from friends. [1] Darkin swiftly resumed his career as a highwayman in the west and midlands of England, deliberately avoiding Essex and using the aliases Harris and Hamilton.