author

Charles Speckman

d. 1763

An eighteenth-century highwayman whose life was quickly turned into print, he is remembered through a vivid criminal narrative tied to his execution at Tyburn in November 1763.

1 Audiobook

The life, travels, exploits, frauds and robberies of Charles Speckman, alias Brown, who was executed at Tyburn on Wednesday 23d of November, 1763

The life, travels, exploits, frauds and robberies of Charles Speckman, alias Brown, who was executed at Tyburn on Wednesday 23d of November, 1763

by Charles Speckman

About the author

Little can be confirmed about Charles Speckman beyond the surviving book traditionally associated with him: The Life, Travels, Exploits, Frauds and Robberies of Charles Speckman, alias Brown, who was executed at Tyburn on Wednesday 23d of November, 1763. That title is the main reason he appears in library and bookseller records today.

Because the available evidence in this search is so limited, it is safest to describe him as a historical figure known through an eighteenth-century crime narrative rather than as a well-documented author in the modern sense. The surviving record suggests a life connected with fraud, robbery, and public execution, and his story fits the period's appetite for sensational criminal biographies.

No reliable portrait could be confirmed from the sources available here, so none is included.