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Isaac Gulliver

Kinson, Dorset

The 'gentle smuggler' who never killed a man and died a rich gentleman.

Isaac Gulliver ran one of the biggest smuggling gangs on the south coast, landing brandy, tea and lace on the beaches around Poole and Bournemouth. His men wore smocks and powdered their hair, and he boasted he had never killed anyone.

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When
1745–1822
Where
50.7600, -1.9000
Group
Pirates

Visiting

St Andrew's church in Kinson has a tower where smugglers hid goods. His grave is in Wimborne Minster.

Cover of Blood and Gold by Cale Mills
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Blood and Gold

Sixteen true stories of mutiny, mercy, treasure and the gallows from the Golden Age of Piracy: Henry Every, Bartholomew “Black Bart” Roberts, Edward England, Howell Davis, Christopher Moody, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, Charles Vane, Benjamin Hornigold, Blackbeard, Stede Bonnet, Israel Hands, Calico Jack, Edward Low, Captain William Kidd and Samuel “Black Sam” Bellamy. Where the record is uncertain, the book says so.

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