Bentwater Parks, SuffolkIf Margaret Catchpole had never set eyes on smuggler Will Laud, she would have probably married a ploughman, conceived a brood of children and died in her bed on her beloved Suffolk soil. We would never have heard of her. Instead, this 18th-century wildchild refused to be tamed. She learned to read and write, became a famed horse thief and jailbreaker, was sentenced to be executed, then transp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:05PM on July 1, 2012