Jack Perth

Jack Perth was born on 7 April 1755 in Arbroath, Angus, United Kingdom to a poor family. 
In 1776, he moved to Roscoff, Brittany, France. There he became a pirate and began robbing ships with supplies going to the New World.
In 1786, he unsuccessfully boarded a Dutch ship captained by Laurens Rutte. He took him and the remains of his crew to Plymouth, Cornwall where he was arrested.
He sat in jail until May 12 1787 when he was taken to Portsmouth, Hampshire and onto the Scarborough in the First Fleet to Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
In the voyage, him, Oliver Armadale and Marvin Broxburn started a riot which got him killed.