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Oct 9, 2018 · Dick Turpin is terrorising the countryside around Upper Dencher. Captain Fancey and Sergeant Jock Strapp plan to put an end to his escapades, and enlist the help of the Reverend Flasher. Little do they know that the priest leads a double life.
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Dick Turpin's Ride is a 1951 American adventure film directed by Ralph Murphy and starring Louis Hayward. It follows the career of the eighteenth century highwaymen Dick Turpin. It is...
- The Early Days of Highwaymen
- A True Gentleman of The Road
- Swift Nick, The Night Rider
- The Most Famous Highwayman of Them All
- The End of The Road
The first highwaymen were often former soldiers who had served in the English Civil War. Travellers out on England’s unprotected roads were easy pickings for these men, and a lack of witnesses meant highway robbery posed less of a risk of being caught and hanged than other forms of robbery. The most famous highwaymanof this period was James Hind. H...
It was a Frenchman called Claude Duval who we have to thank for the image of the highwayman as a dashing, well-dressed rogue with impeccable manners. Duval was everything Dick Turpin was not. Duval’s family had sheltered Royalist exiles in France following their defeat in the Civil War. After the restoration of Charles II in 1660, Duval travelled t...
It’s not just impeccable manners and sartorial elegance that we wrongly associate with Dick Turpin. One of his most famous exploits, the ride through the night from Kent to York, was actually carried out by a man called John ‘Swift Nick’ Nevison, some 30 years before Turpin was born. Another former soldier, Nevison turned to highway robbery in the ...
Born in 1705, Richard ‘Dick’ Turpin apprenticed as a butcher - the same profession as his father. It was a profession that would bring him into the orbit of one of London’s most notorious criminal gangs - the Gregorys. The Gregorys stole livestock, which meant they needed the services of a butcher to cut up the meat so it could be sold more easily....
Highwaymen continued to terrorise the roads for another 100 years after Turpin’s death, with notable names such as Plunkett, MacLaine and the flamboyant Sixteen String Jack briefly capturing the public imagination. By the turn of the 19th century, however, their days were numbered. Many cite the building of the railways as ushering in their demise,...
Dick challenges Willoughby to a duel, but he refuses, claiming that Dick is an unworthy opponent. Dick vows revenge before returning to St. Albans, where Lady Greene informs him that Joyce has discovered his true identity and wants nothing to do with him.
Known in our collective imagination as a dashing highwayman who robbed the rich, saved damsels in distress and eluded the law, Georgian highwayman Dick Turpin (1705 –1739) is one of the most notorious criminals of the 18th century.
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All about Movie: directors and actors, reviews and ratings, trailers, stills, backstage. A highwayman rides to York to stop a lady marrying a usurper....
