Tom Cox (highwayman) hangman out of the cart carrying him to the gallows. Samuel Smith recorded that: He was listed in James Caulfield's "Blackguardiana: or, a dictionary of rogues, bawds, pimps, whores, pickpockets, shoplifters, &c." (1793) and features in a song sung by a character in the novel "Rookwood" (1834) by W. Harrison Ainsworth as follows: Tom Cox (highwayman) Thomas Cox (c. 1665 – 12 September 1690), known as "The Handsome Highwayman", was an English highwayman, sentenced to death and hanged at Tyburn. He had a reputation for a spirited nature and it is reported that when asked if he wished to say
George Lyon (highwayman) (not, as is traditionally believed, that of his mother or grandmother), the inscription simply reads "Nanny Lyon, Died 17th April 1804". His name is not recorded on the stone. George Lyon (highwayman) George Lyon (1761–22 April 1815) was a gentleman highwayman in England. Lyon was born in Upholland, Lancashire, to a poor family. His name was George Lyon - not George Lyons as some historians wrongly believe. George Lyon's one major feat as a highwayman was to hold up the Liverpool mail coach. With his accomplices, who have been unknown since, he planned the robbery at the Legs of Man