Jack Sheppard
✓ Source-basedfallingEnglish thief and prison escapee
Lived 1702 to 1724 · aged 22
Fame51.4
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Peak1840s
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John Sheppard, nicknamed "Honest Jack", "Gentleman Jack" or "Jack the Lad", was an English criminal who became notorious in early 18th-century London.
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Photos 7
An engraving of Wych Street, from about 1870
Jack used a rope of knotted bedclothes to lower Bess during their escape from the New Prison in Clerkenwell.
Jack Sheppard in Newgate Prison before his fourth escape, from the frontispiece of the "Narrative" of his life, published by John Applebee in 1724. The label "A" marks the hole he made in the chimney during his escape.![Jack Sheppard, in Newgate Prison awaiting execution, in an engraving by George White from 1728, based on a painting by James Thornhill which has not survived. Note that Sheppard's hair is cropped and that he points toward the door.[30]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/J-Sheppard-Thornhill.png/500px-J-Sheppard-Thornhill.png)
Jack Sheppard, in Newgate Prison awaiting execution, in an engraving by George White from 1728, based on a painting by James Thornhill which has not survived. Note that Sheppard's hair is cropped and that he points toward the door.[30]
Poster for the play Jack Sheppard performed at the Royal Lyceum Theatre.
"The Last Scene" engraved by George Cruikshank in 1839 to illustrate William Harrison Ainsworth's serialised novel, Jack Sheppard. The captions read: "Jack Sheppard's Farewell to Mr Wood", "Blueskin cutting down Jack Sheppard", and "The body of Jack Sheppard carried off by the mob".About this person
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1702 to 1724 · aged 22
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