Arthur Orton
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arthur-orton-183-16380419
title:
Arthur Orton
text:
Arthur Orton was an English man who has generally been identified by legal historians and commentators as the "Tichborne Claimant", who in two celebrated court cases both fascinated and shocked Victorian society in the 1860s and 1870s. The son of a London butcher, Orton went to sea as a boy, spent a year in Chile, and worked as a butcher and stockman for squatters in Australia in the middle-to-late 1850s. In 1866 Thomas Castro, a butcher from Wagga Wagga in Australia, claimed to be Roger Tichbor
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wiki
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encyclopedia
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English imposter
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Orton
date created:
2006-07-04T09:30:32Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T01:42:49Z
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