Thomas Goldsmith (pirate)
Thomas Goldsmith was a privateer from Dartmouth during the War of Spanish Succession. After serving as a privateer around 1710, he turned to piracy aboard his ship Snap Dragon and accumulated great wealth.
He is chiefly remembered not for his piracy but for retiring and dying peacefully in his bed, to be buried in his hometown churchyard in 1714. His gravestone inscription is:
