THE TICHBORNE CLAIMANT TICHBORNE (Sir Roger, Arthur Orton, 1834-1898, The Tichborne Claimant, Son of a Butcher who claimed to be the long lost son of Sir Roger Tichborne)

Unsigned albumen carte de visite photo by the London Stereoscopic Company of a cartoon, showing the Claimant's head superimposed on a large oyster, Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament in the background, captioned "Caught at Westminster a 'Wapping Native'", 4¼" x 2½", no place, no date, mounted with a gilt fillet and a signature and laid down together, 7½" x 5", no place, no date

The Tichborne case was a legal cause célèbre that captivated Victorian England in the 1860s and 1870s. It concerned the claims by a man sometimes referred to as Thomas Castro or as Arthur Orton, but usually termed "the Claimant", to be the missing heir to the Tichborne baronetcy. He failed to convince the courts, was convicted of perjury and served a long prison sentence. During protracted enquiries before the case went to court in 1871, details emerged suggesting that the Claimant might be Arthur Orton, a butcher's son from Wapping in London, who had gone to sea as a boy and had last been heard of in Australia.

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