John Austin (highwayman) John Austin (highwayman) John Austin (died 7 November 1783) was an English footpad who became the last person to be hanged at the Tyburn gallows outside London. He was sentenced to death for the murder of a labourer called John Spicer from Kent. The Recorder of London, James Adair, described it as a "robbery with violence" that involved "cutting and wounding [...] in a cruel manner." This hanging would mark the end of Tyburn, a village then in the county of Middlesex, being a place of executions for almost 600 years. Austin was brought from Newgate prison in the City
John Clavell at Gad's Hill. John Clavell John Clavell (1601–1643) was a highwayman, author, lawyer, and doctor. He is known for his poem "A Recantation of an Ill Led Life", and his play "The Soddered Citizen". His life is mainly split into two parts: his early life in England, where he grew up, lived as a highwayman, and started his reformation, and the latter part of his life in England and Ireland where he was a lawyer and physician. John Clavell was the youngest of six children. He was baptized at Wootton Glanville and grew up in Sherborne, England where he spent