Jack Whicher
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Detective Inspector Jonathan Whicher was an English police detective. He was one of the original eight members of London's newly formed Detective Branch, which was established at Scotland Yard in 1842
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Constance Kent in 1860
Tichborne case
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The Tichborne case was a legal cause célèbre that fascinated Victorian Britain in the 1860s and 1870s. It concerned the claims by a man sometimes referred to as Thomas Castro or as Arthur Orton, but u
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…Charlotte Piper (1812–1883) in 1866 at St Margaret's, Westminster. He had become a private detective by early 1867 and in that role was involved in the Tichborne case, discovering that the Claimant Arthur Orton had immediately visited his family in Wapping on his return to London in 1866. In the 1881 census he is…
The blended image (centre) was said by the Claimant's supporters to prove that Roger Tichborne (left, in 1853) and the Claimant (right, in 1874) were one and the same person.
Roger Tichborne: one of two daguerreotypes taken in South America in 1853–54
August 1865 advertisement in The Argus seeking information as to Tichborne's fate
Thomas Castro's butcher's shop in Wagga Wagga, Australia