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
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
John Duke Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge was an English lawyer, judge and Liberal politician. He held the posts, in turn, of Solicitor General for England and Wales, Attorney General for England and W
Lord Coleridge by Eden Upton Eddis
Stephen Coleridge c. 1873 by Jane Seymour Coleridge