Rhyging
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{{Infobox criminal |
{{Infobox criminal |
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| image_name = Rhyging_Martin.jpg |
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| name |
| name = Rhyging |
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| image_caption = Rhyging posing with a gun, as reproduced in the ''Daily Gleaner'' |
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| birth_name |
| birth_name = Vincent Martin |
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| birth_date |
| birth_date = 1924 |
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| birth_place |
| birth_place = [[Linstead, St. Catherine]], [[Colony of Jamaica]], British Empire |
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| death_date |
| death_date = {{death date and given age|1948|9|df=y|9|24}} |
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| other_names |
| other_names = Ivanhoe |
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| death_place |
| death_place = [[Lime Cay]], Colony of Jamaica, British Empire |
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| charge |
| charge = Wounding, robbery, murder |
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'''Vincent''' "'''Ivanhoe'''" '''Martin''' (1924{{ndash}}9 September 1948), known as "'''Rhyging'''", was a [[Jamaica]]n criminal who became a legendary outlaw and [[folk hero]], often regarded as the "original [[rude boy]]".{{cite book|author1=Heather Augustyn|author2=Cedella Marley|title=Ska: An Oral History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bUba45txcJ8C&pg=PA69|date=2010|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-6040-3|page=69}}{{cite book|author=Greil Marcus|title=Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TVAoeipLL38C&pg=PA263|date=1990|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-53581-7|page=263}} He became notorious in 1948 after escaping from prison, going on the run and committing a string of robberies, murders and attempted murders before he was gunned down by police. In subsequent decades his life became mythologised in Jamaican popular culture, culminating in the 1972 cult film ''[[The Harder They Come]]'', in which he is portrayed by [[Jimmy Cliff]]. |
'''Vincent''' "'''Ivanhoe'''" '''Martin''' (1924{{ndash}}9 September 1948), known as "'''Rhyging'''", was a [[Jamaica]]n criminal who became a legendary outlaw and [[folk hero]], often regarded as the "original [[rude boy]]".{{cite book|author1=Heather Augustyn|author2=Cedella Marley|title=Ska: An Oral History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bUba45txcJ8C&pg=PA69|date=2010|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-6040-3|page=69}}{{cite book|author=Greil Marcus|title=Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TVAoeipLL38C&pg=PA263|date=1990|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-53581-7|page=263}} He became notorious in 1948 after escaping from prison, going on the run and committing a string of robberies, murders and attempted murders before he was gunned down by police. In subsequent decades his life became mythologised in Jamaican popular culture, culminating in the 1972 cult film ''[[The Harder They Come]]'', in which he is portrayed by [[Jimmy Cliff]]. |
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