Dick Turpin's full name is Richard "Dick" Turpin.
Dick Turpin lived in the 16th century.
Dick Turpin was born in Hampstead, North West London
Dick Turpin was hanged. It seems he actually performed the act himself by stepping off the support he was on at the gallows.
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The highwayman Dick Turpin owned the black bess
Dick Turpin rode Black Bess.
it wasn't called black bess at all he never had a named horse because he rode stolen horses black bess is a name people got from the poem the highwayman because they assumed that the poem was about dick turpin and in the poem he has a girlfriend called bess who had black hair so a leganed surronded him that he called his horse black bess after her but he didnt. the poem the highwayman may not even be about dick turpin
The Highwayman, Dick Turpin's horse was named Black Bess.
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Dick Turpin only had one girlfriend called Elizabeth but for short Bess. She was the Landlord daughter although the Landlord did not know that Bess was going out with Dick Turpin, as he would tell the authorities of the town.
The fictional character Dick Turpin is often associated with a horse named Black Bess. He was a notorious English highwayman who supposedly rode this horse during his robberies in the 18th century, as depicted in various literary and cultural works.
Black Bess was the horse of Dick Turpin, an English highwayman of the 1730's. The horse completed the journey from London to York in less than 24 hours
He didn't have a wife but he loved a girl called Elizabeth (bess)
Most people would say he had a horse named Black Bess but this is a myth it was just written in a story by the Victorian novelist William Harrison Ainsworth almost 100 years after Turpin's death.
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Most people would say he had a horse named Black Bess but this is a myth it was just written in a story by the Victorian novelist William Harrison Ainsworth almost 100 years after Turpin's death.