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Few men are as well-named as Samuel Challenger. He challenged laws, customs, and authority over his long life, which began and ended in respectability. For several decades, he was a pain in the neck of police and prison authorities in two hemispheres. Yorkshire Samuel was born in Darton, Yorkshire on 15 September 1794, the youngestContinue reading “Convict Snapshots – Samuel Challenger.”