History / History- Social & Commercial. / The Tichborne Claimant  .       a Victorian mystery by Douglas Woodruff Douglas Woodruff                               Hollis and Carter, 1957 first edition: brown cloth hardcover:no dust jacket :  479 pages including index. b/w photographic illustrations; coloured frontispiece. Synopsis:  The extraordinary story of the Tichborne case,  concluded on the 28th of February 1874, concerning the claims of a man  who appeared in England as the long-  lost Roger Tichborne , heir to  the Tichborne  baronetcy and estates, presumed   drowned  off the coast of South America  13 years previously. When the  claimant  arrived in England from Australia he was recognised and endorsed  by  the mother of Roger, the family doctor , the family solicitor  and family servants ; while the rest of the family repudiated him as an impostor.  Victorian England quickly became  passionately interested in  the controversy which progressed  through the longest civil action, and  longest criminal trial on record at the time ,  concluding  with  a  jury verdict  and  Lord Chief Justice judgement   that Arthur Orton,  son of a Wapping butcher, had tried to pass himself off as someone whom he had never met or seen.
 This comprehensive account of an event  described by  Mr Edgar Lustgarten,  contemporary student of crime , as
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  • Book Title: The Tichborne Claimant . a Victorian mystery
  • Author: Douglas Woodruff
  • ISBN: mw0146
  • Publisher: Hollis and Carter
  • Year Published: 1957
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