JOHN RATTENBURY, Devon Smuggler

John otherwise known as Jack Rattenbury, nicknamed Rob Roy of the West (1778, in Beer, Devon – 1844) was an English smuggler. In 1837 after thirty years at sea as a fisherman, pilot, seaman and smuggler he wrote about his life in a book called Memoirs of a Smuggler with the help of a local Unitarian clergyman. This blister pack contains one unpainted figure – will need assembling & painting.