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{{short description|British author and former soldier (born 1941)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2020}}
'''Sir Rupert Mackeson, 2nd Baronet''' (born 16 November 1941) is a British [[author]] and former soldier.

==Background and education==

Mackeson is the son of [[Sir Harry Mackeson, 1st Baronet]], and his wife Alethea Cecil Chetwynd-Talbot. His grandfather Henry Mackeson was the founder of the [[Mackeson's XXX|Mackeson brewery]].

He was educated at [[Harrow School]], [[Trinity College, Dublin]] and [[Royal Military Academy Sandhurst|Sandhurst]].

==Career==
After serving four years in the [[Royal Horse Guards]], Mackeson began working in the [[City of London]]. When he left the army, Mackeson found employment running a London bank with strong ties to the Mafia,<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/horseracing/3018236/Racing-Diary-Mackeson-a-man-of-many-parts.html|title=Racing Diary: Mackeson a man of many parts|first=Marcus|last=Armytage|date=6 December 2001|accessdate=25 July 2018|via=www.telegraph.co.uk}}</ref> which Mackeson freely admits. "I ran a Mafia controlled financial institution," he declared in ''[[The Guardian]]''.<ref name="auto1">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2001/dec/09/horseracing.willbuckley|title=Mackeson turns his hand to fiction|first=Will|last=Buckley|date=9 December 2001|work=The Guardian|access-date=25 July 2018}}</ref> Since he "did not want to end up under Blackfriars Bridge,"<ref name="auto1"/> when the "aggravation"<ref name="auto1"/> of running a "mobbed up" bank became too much for him, Mackeson relocated to Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), which was then under the control of a white-minority government.<ref name="auto1"/> There, Mackeson began a career in smuggling. In order to "curry favor with [[Margaret Thatcher|Mrs.Thatcher]]", the Rhodesian authorities arrested him and imprisoned him in the Khami prison camp.<ref name="auto"/> Within a day, Mackeson was removed from the prison for inciting a riot.<ref name="auto"/> When the Rhodesian authorities attempted to extradite him to the UK, Mackeson punched his guard in the nose while on board a plane, forcing the plane to land.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cracked.com/article_22904_6-criminals-whose-escapes-were-as-legendary-as-their-crimes.html|title=6 Epic Crime Sprees That Shouldn't Have Been Possible|accessdate=25 July 2018}}</ref> When he was finally transported back to the UK, the judge presiding over the case ruled that it was an illegal extradition—a kidnapping, in essence—and had him freed.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19810626&id=-bVAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=yKUMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3394,5169982&hl=en|title=The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search|website=news.google.com|accessdate=25 July 2018}}</ref>

Since release, Mackeson has become a writer of books about [[horse racing|racing]], writing under his own name and also as '''Rupert Collens'''. ''Bet Like a Man'' (2001) is a [[novel]] about the cloning of a [[Epsom Derby|Derby]] winner. He also writes for the ''[[Racing Post]]'' and runs a mobile bookshop and art gallery which operates on British racecourses.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/4266875/Back-again.html|title=Back again|date=2001-11-20|access-date=2018-07-25|language=en-GB|issn=0307-1235}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2001/dec/09/horseracing.willbuckley|title=Mackeson turns his hand to fiction|last=Buckley|first=Will|date=2001-12-09|website=The Guardian|language=en|access-date=2018-07-25}}</ref>

==Books as Rupert Mackeson==
*''Great Racing Gambles and Frauds''
*''Flat Racing Scams and Scandals'' (Metro Publishing, 2004) {{ISBN|978-1-84358-042-3}}
*''Bet Like a Man'' (Eye Ltd, Bridgnorth, 2001) {{ISBN|1-903070-13-9}}

==Books as Rupert Collens==
*''50 Cheltenham Gold Cups''
*''Cecil Aldin's Dogs and Hounds''
*''25 Legal Luminaries from Vanity Fair''
*''Snaffles: His Life and Works'' (with John Welcome)
*''Snaffles on Racing and Point to Pointing'' (with John Welcome)
*''Snaffles on Hunting'' (with John Welcome)

==References==
{{Reflist}}
*Kidd, Charles, and Williamson, David (editors): ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition) (New York: St Martin's Press, 1990)
*[http://www.travellerseye.com/authorView.asp?ID_=37 Rupert Mackeson at Eye Books]
*[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2001/12/06/shdiar07.xml Racing Diary: Mackeson, a man of many parts]{{dead link|date=January 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
*{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20080501050223/http://www.leighrayment.com/baronetage/baronetsM1.htm The Baronetage at leighrayment.com]}}
*''R. v. Sir Rupert Mackeson (extradition)''

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