George Sidney Paternoster, (1866-1925) was a British author whose Motor Pirate sequence, comprising The Motor Pirate (1903) and The Cruise of the Conquistador: Being the Further Adventures of the Motor Pirate (1905), features the exploits of the eponymous masked highwayman (and later pirate), making use of a car of an advanced Technology, and later – in episodes internally identified as being set in the Near Future – in a similarly daunting ship. The magazine in which the series of tales originally appeared has not been identified.
