The indictments stated that the alleged offences had occurred at Welton on 1 March 1739, and described Turpin as "John Palmer alias Pawmer alias Richard Turpin ... late of the castle of York in the County of York labourer".
It is based on the poem Dick Turpin's Ride by Alfred Noyes.
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Dick Turpin's Ride is a 1951 American adventure film directed by Ralph Murphy and starring Louis Hayward, Patricia Medina and Suzanne Dalbert.
Films include Don Juan (1926), The Bat (1926), Bardelys the Magnificent (1926), Dick Turpin (1933), Adventures of Don Quixote (1933), and Vigil in the Night (1940).
The name Turpin Road was chosen after the show's creators read that the East End was the haunt of notorious highwaymen, such as Dick Turpin.
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On television he appeared in Doctor Who, Dick Turpin, Return to Treasure Island, Danger Man, The Prisoner, The Avengers, Space: 1999, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, (for which he plunged 430ft into the Reichenbach Falls doubling for Eric Porter) and London's Burning.
The author had been recently propelled from obscurity to fame with his novel Rockwood which popularised the myth of Dick Turpin and his mare Black Bess.
Among the earliest Newgate novels were Thomas Gaspey's Richmond (1827) and History of George Godfrey (1828), Edward Bulwer-Lytton's Paul Clifford (1830) and Eugene Aram (1832), and William Harrison Ainsworth's Rookwood (1834), which featured Dick Turpin.