Leopold Redpath (12 May 1816 - 1 May 1891) was a clerk of the Great Northern Railway Company[1][2] who perpetrated a notorious fraud against his employers and was transported to Australia.[3][4]

Leopold Redpath. Pencil drawing attributed to William Egley, 1839. National Portrait Gallery, London.
Leopold Redpath in The Chronicles of Newgate

References edit

  1. ^ J.B. (1857). Scenes from the Lives of Robson and Redpath. London, England: W. M. Clark. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
  2. ^ Robb, George (2002). White-Collar Crime in Modern England: Financial Fraud and Business Morality, 1845-1929. Cambridge University Press. pp. 53–54. ISBN 9780521526128. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
  3. ^ Hayes, David A. & Marian Kamlish. (2013) The King's Cross fraudster: Leopold Redpath, his life and times. London: Camden History Society. ISBN 978-0904491876
  4. ^ Grinling, Charles H. (2018). "XI. An Isolated Incident: - The Frauds of Leopold Redpath. 1856-1858". The History of The Great Northern Railway: 1845 - 1902. Routledge. ISBN 9780429862281. Retrieved 10 May 2019.