Tichborne

Tichborne, a Hampshire property, 2 miles SSW. of Alresford station and 6½ E. by N. of Winchester. It has from before the Conquest been the seat of the Tichbornes, a Catholic family who received a baronetcy in 1626. After the death of the eleventh baronet, Sir Alfred Joseph Tichborne (1839-66), a butcher from Wagga Wagga in Australia, Thomas Castro, otherwise Arthur Orton of Wapping, came forward to personate an elder brother, Roger Charles Tichborne (1829-54), who had been lost at sea off the coast of America. His case collapsed on 6th March 1872, the 103d day of a trial to assert his claims; and the 'Claimant' was on 28th Feb. 1874, the 188th day of this new trial, whose cost was £55,315, sentenced to fourteen years' imprisonment with hard labour for perjury. He died 1st April 1898. See Sir Alex. Cockburn's Charge (2 vols. 1875).