Dick Turpin as Turpin in the 1974 Carry On film "Carry On Dick" and LWT cast Richard O'Sullivan as Turpin in their eponymous series "Dick Turpin". Footnotes Notes Bibliography Dick Turpin Richard Turpin (bapt. 21 September 1705 – 7 April 1739) was an English highwayman whose exploits were romanticised following his execution in York for horse theft. Turpin may have followed his father's trade as a butcher early in his life but, by the early 1730s, he had joined a gang of deer thieves and, later, became a poacher, burglar, horse thief and killer. He is also known for a fictional overnight
Dick Strawbridge Adoree, founder of The Vintage Patisserie, whom he married in 2015. Strawbridge was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science from Plymouth University in 2010. Dick Strawbridge Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Francis "Dick" Strawbridge, MBE (born 3 September 1959), is a British engineer, television presenter and environmentalist. He is often referred to as "Colonel Dick". The third of seven children, Strawbridge was born in Burma, then raised and educated in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. He attended Ballyclare High School from 1971 to 1976. Strawbridge received a commission in the British Army in 1979, after attending Welbeck DSFC (becoming head of college) and Sandhurst.