Abstract
Abstract Novelists, from Henry Fielding to Jeffrey Archer, are perennially fascinate by great swindlers –– the most adventurous of criminals. For the Victorians, the most notorious such ‘buccaneer’ was John Sadleir (1814–56). One of the few financier-criminals (along with Robert Maxwell) to earn an entry in the DNB, the Irish-born Sadleir rose to fame, power, and high political office on the immense bubble of speculative wealth created by his fraudulent banking activities. When the Tipperary Bank collapsed in February 1856, Sadleir was found to have embezzled £200,000 of its funds and to have ruined legions of widows and children. A couple of days later his body was found on Hampstead Heath, alongside a phial of prussic acid.
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