Author: David A Hayes and Mariam Kamlish
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Review date: 16/12/2025
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Publisher: Camden History Society, north London
Publisher URL:
http://www.camdenhistorysociety.org
Year of publication: 11/03/2013
Brief:
One of the greatest embezzlers of the 19th century
In the 1850s, Leopold Redpath lived in splendour in a Nash house in Regent’s Park, having embezzled colossal sums from the Great Northern Railway Company. His extraordinary story, including his later life as a convict in Australia, is detailed; from his poverty-stricken childhood through his years of glory posing as a wealthy, affable philanthropist and art collector, hobnobbing with the great and the good, to his arrest, conviction and transportation to Australia and life as a good-conduct ticket-of-leave man.
