A convict whose prior experience or training made him suitable for clerical or professional work.
some gentlemen convicts could support themselves and did no labour at all
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Gentlemen convicts were issued with tickets on their arrival.
His last popular play was about a gentleman convict on the run from Dartmoor.
Educated convict and gentleman convict were terms for those with more education and a trade or profession, thus creating divides within the convicts as a group.
The crime-solving pair are a Huguenot gentleman convict and the commandant's Irish Catholic cook.
Inspired by his research into a gentleman convict, he had the idea for a series of murder mysteries set in colonial penal stations.