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Dick Turpin's Ride to York is a 1922 British historical silent film drama directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Matheson Lang, Isobel Elsom and Cecil Humphreys. It was the first feature-length film of the story of the famous 18th-century highwayman Dick Turpin and his legendary 200 mi (320 km) overnight ride from London to York on ...
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- Stoll Pictures
Mention the name of Turpin to most people, and they will tell you he was a daring and dashing rogue who famously rode this trip of two hundred miles on his faithful mare, Black Bess, in less than fifteen hours. In so doing, Turpin actually got to York before news of his misdemeanours in London.
- 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,...
He is also known for a fictional 200-mile (320 km) overnight ride from London to York on his horse Black Bess, a story that was made famous by the Victorian novelist William Harrison Ainsworth almost 100 years after Turpin's death.
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- Elizabeth Millington
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27 de feb. de 2024 · Dick Turpin makes an appearance in the story as a captivating highwayman who leads a thrilling overnight chase from London to York on his horse, Black Bess. However, Black Bess wasn’t really the name of Turpin’s horse — and the highwayman never actually made such a ride.
Dick Turpin's Ride to York: Directed by Maurice Elvey. With Matheson Lang, Isobel Elsom, Cecil Humphreys, Norman Page. A highwayman rides to York to stop a lady marrying a usurper.
His story became linked in print with a legendary ride from London to York to establish an alibi, a tale previously attributed to the highwayman William Nevison. This fictional version was further established when it was included in an 1834 bestseller called Rockwood, in which the author Harrison Ainsworth added a new twist: that Turpin’s ...
