Stede Bonnet (c. 1688 – 10 December 1718) [a] was an English pirate who was known as the Gentleman Pirate [1] because he was a moderately wealthy landowner before turning to a life of crime. Bonnet was born into a wealthy English family on the island of Barbados, and inherited the family estate after his father's death in 1694. Despite his ...

Jul 31, 2007 · Stede Bonnet's career as the "Gentleman Pirate" may represent the worst midlife crisis on record. In 1717, Bonnet, a retired British army major with a large sugar plantation in Barbados,...

Sep 3, 2021 · Captain Stede Bonnet was a plantation owner in Barbados who turned to piracy and privateering in 1717. Known as the 'Gentleman Pirate', Bonnet embarked on a life of crime relatively late in life, reportedly in order to escape his nagging wife.

Jan 3, 2020 · Major Stede Bonnet (1688-1718) was the most unlikely of pirates. Known as the Gentleman Pirate, he left a prosperous plantation for the seas.

There was one man who went against these seemingly opposite stereotypes and became both: Stede Bonnet. Born a gentleman, he turned to piracy in his later years. Bonnet was born to moderately wealthy English landowners in Barbados in 1688.

A former planter turned brigand, Stede Bonnet was a second generation Barbadian who sailed throughout the Caribbean and the North Atlantic committing piracy. His leadership and management styles were atypical for a buccaneer. He was known as the “Gentleman Pirate.”

Born on July 29, 1688, in Barbados, Stede Bonnet was a plantation owner who turned to a life of piracy in 1717 — and even plundered alongside Blackbeard. Stede Bonnet had no experience sailing but ended up plundering alongside Blackbeard anyway.

On September 27, 1718, Colonel William Rhett captured the so-called “Gentleman Pirate” Stede Bonnet, after a six-hour battle near the mouth of the Cape Fear River.

Jan 4, 2023 · Stede Bonnet is the star of period comedy Our Flag Means Death, which follows the ‘Gentleman Pirate’ through his mid-life crisis, abandoning his life of plenty to become a pirate. It does not go well.

Uneducated and unemployed seamen often found their way to a pirate ship’s crew. But one Barbadian named Stede Bonnet was an unlikely candidate for the profession. Born in 1688, Bonnet’s family owned a plantation three miles east of Bridgetown, Barbados.