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Yorkshire's Famous Residents

Dick Turpin - Highwayman executed in York City

Guy Fawkes - November 5th Gunpowder Plot & Treason

John Palmer alias Dick (Richard) Turpin

Born in Hempstead and baptised Richard Turpin on September 25th 1705, he was apprenticed to a butcher in Whitechapel, London where he was caught stealing two oxen.

For a time he earned a living smuggling and then started robbing farmhouses throughout the Home Counties. His reputation earned him a bounty on his head of Fifty Pound offered by King George, this was raised to One Hundred Pounds in February 1736 when his gang robbed a wealthy Farmer beating his wife and daughter.

He met up with the then most famous Highwayman a Tom King, who past on his knowledge of the trade hence the start of career of Dick Turpin the Highwayman. In May 1737 he shot a gamekeeper in Epping Forest and became a hunted murderer.

After Tom King was arrested in the red Lion Pub in Whitechapel, Turpin moved north to Lincolnshire where he was arrested for rustling horses. He escaped into Yorkshire and using the name John Palmer set up a business in horse dealing around York City.

His lifestyle of a Gentleman was financed by rustling in the neighbouring counties, but he was finally arrested after shooting a prize cock which belonged to his landlord and when answering the charge it was found that John Palmer had other complaints to his name in Lincolnshire.

While in custody in York Castle he wrote to his brother for a character reference, the letter was returned to the local Post Office after his brother refused to pay the postage due. A James Smith Turpin's former schoolmaster recognised the the handwriting and informed the local Magistrate.

Although signed John Palmer, Smith identified the hand as Richard Turpin's and was despatched for York where he identified Palmer as Turpin who was convicted on two counts and sentenced to death.

On the 19thof April 1739 Dick Turpin was hung at Tyburn Gallows where the race course now, he was buried near St Georges Church York.

Guy Fawkes - Gunpowder Plot & Treason

Born in York and baptised on the 16th April 1570 at Saint Michael-le-Belfrey Guy was educated at St Peters School in York City. Guido Fawkes had an exciting and varied life.

At twenty one he leased a small holding nearby in Clifton and two years later left England to enlist in the Spanish Army and serve under the Archduke Albert of Austria, in 1596 he was in Calais when it fell to King Philip II of Spain.

Guy Fawkes

There is a Hotel in York which claims to be his birthplace, but it is the end of his career for which he is famous. On November 5th 1605 he was the only member of a gang of thirteen conspirators arrested in the cellars of the British House of Parliament in London.

He claimed to be John Johnson a point clarified when tortured along with there plans, which were to blow up the Parliament Building along with the King and his Lords. Overthrowing the Government and install a new monarchy to return England to it's Catholic past.

He was executed for treason on the 31st of January 1606 in the Old Palace Yard in Westminster, the day of the failed plot is celebrated each year with fireworks and bonfires. It is tradition to burn an effigy of Guy on the fires after children have raised funds for fireworks asking for a "Penny for the Guy"

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Yorkshire's Famous Residents

Dick Turpin - Highwayman executed in York City

Guy Fawkes - November 5th Gunpowder Plot & Treason

John Palmer alias Dick (Richard) Turpin

Born in Hempstead and baptised Richard Turpin on September 25th 1705, he was apprenticed to a butcher in Whitechapel, London where he was caught stealing two oxen.

He met up with the then most famous Highwayman a Tom King, who past on his knowledge of the trade hence the start of career of Dick Turpin the Highwayman. In May 1737 he shot a gamekeeper in Epping Forest and became a hunted murderer.

After Tom King was arrested in the red Lion Pub in Whitechapel, Turpin moved north to Lincolnshire where he was arrested for rustling horses. He escaped into Yorkshire and using the name John Palmer set up a business in horse dealing around York City.

His lifestyle of a Gentleman was financed by rustling in the neighbouring counties, but he was finally arrested after shooting a prize cock which belonged to his landlord and when answering the charge it was found that John Palmer had other complaints to his name in Lincolnshire.

While in custody in York Castle he wrote to his brother for a character reference, the letter was returned to the local Post Office after his brother refused to pay the postage due. A James Smith Turpin's former schoolmaster recognised the the handwriting and informed the local Magistrate.

Although signed John Palmer, Smith identified the hand as Richard Turpin's and was despatched for York where he identified Palmer as Turpin who was convicted on two counts and sentenced to death.

On the 19thof April 1739 Dick Turpin was hung at Tyburn Gallows where the race course now, he was buried near St Georges Church York.

Guy Fawkes - Gunpowder Plot & Treason

Born in York and baptised on the 16th April 1570 at Saint Michael-le-Belfrey Guy was educated at St Peters School in York City. Guido Fawkes had an exciting and varied life.

At twenty one he leased a small holding nearby in Clifton and two years later left England to enlist in the Spanish Army and serve under the Archduke Albert of Austria, in 1596 he was in Calais when it fell to King Philip II of Spain.

Guy Fawkes

There is a Hotel in York which claims to be his birthplace, but it is the end of his career for which he is famous. On November 5th 1605 he was the only member of a gang of thirteen conspirators arrested in the cellars of the British House of Parliament in London.

He claimed to be John Johnson a point clarified when tortured along with there plans, which were to blow up the Parliament Building along with the King and his Lords. Overthrowing the Government and install a new monarchy to return England to it's Catholic past.

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Yorkshire's Famous Residents

Dick Turpin - Highwayman executed in York City

Guy Fawkes - November 5th Gunpowder Plot & Treason

John Palmer alias Dick (Richard) Turpin

Born in Hempstead and baptised Richard Turpin on September 25th 1705, he was apprenticed to a butcher in Whitechapel, London where he was caught stealing two oxen.

He met up with the then most famous Highwayman a Tom King, who past on his knowledge of the trade hence the start of career of Dick Turpin the Highwayman. In May 1737 he shot a gamekeeper in Epping Forest and became a hunted murderer.

After Tom King was arrested in the red Lion Pub in Whitechapel, Turpin moved north to Lincolnshire where he was arrested for rustling horses. He escaped into Yorkshire and using the name John Palmer set up a business in horse dealing around York City.

His lifestyle of a Gentleman was financed by rustling in the neighbouring counties, but he was finally arrested after shooting a prize cock which belonged to his landlord and when answering the charge it was found that John Palmer had other complaints to his name in Lincolnshire.

While in custody in York Castle he wrote to his brother for a character reference, the letter was returned to the local Post Office after his brother refused to pay the postage due. A James Smith Turpin's former schoolmaster recognised the the handwriting and informed the local Magistrate.

Although signed John Palmer, Smith identified the hand as Richard Turpin's and was despatched for York where he identified Palmer as Turpin who was convicted on two counts and sentenced to death.

On the 19thof April 1739 Dick Turpin was hung at Tyburn Gallows where the race course now, he was buried near St Georges Church York.

Guy Fawkes - Gunpowder Plot & Treason

Born in York and baptised on the 16th April 1570 at Saint Michael-le-Belfrey Guy was educated at St Peters School in York City. Guido Fawkes had an exciting and varied life.

At twenty one he leased a small holding nearby in Clifton and two years later left England to enlist in the Spanish Army and serve under the Archduke Albert of Austria, in 1596 he was in Calais when it fell to King Philip II of Spain.

Guy Fawkes

There is a Hotel in York which claims to be his birthplace, but it is the end of his career for which he is famous. On November 5th 1605 he was the only member of a gang of thirteen conspirators arrested in the cellars of the British House of Parliament in London.

He claimed to be John Johnson a point clarified when tortured along with there plans, which were to blow up the Parliament Building along with the King and his Lords. Overthrowing the Government and install a new monarchy to return England to it's Catholic past.

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