# Episode 004: Robert Perkins: The Disinherited Baker Turned Thief

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Podcast: [Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lives-of-the-most-remarkable-criminals-7851653)
Published: 2026-06-08T01:00:54+00:00
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Duration seconds: 360

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Send us your Feedback Robert Perkins grows up in Hertfordshire as the son of a prosperous innkeeper, but prosperity does not protect him. After his mother dies and his father remarries, the boy is cast out of his own home; stripped of affection, stripped of inheritance, stripped of everything that might have held him steady. As recorded in Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals, Perkins drifts into the kind of company that haunts the margins of Georgian England: drinkers, gamblers, idlers w...

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