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Jonathan Wild
(1683-1725)
NAME AUTHORITIES:
LOC:    Wild, Jonathan, 1682?-1725
DNB:    Wild, Jonathan (bap. 1683, d. 1725), thief-taker
LBT ID: JoWild1725    VIAF ID: 35698000    LOC ID: n50019233		B/BAP:   1683-05-06
DIED:   1725-05-24
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Thief-taker and criminal, the model for Peachum in Gay's Beggar's Opera (1728) and the subject of Fielding's fictional Jonathan Wild the Great (1743).
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