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Kenealy and the Tichborne Cause
Michael Roe
其他書名
A Study in Mid-Victorian Populism
出版Melbourne University Press, 1974
主題Biography & Autobiography / GeneralBiography & Autobiography / Historical
ISBN05228405749780522840575
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=0nqQAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋In 1852 Roger Charles Doughty-Tichborne abandoned the army and sailed for South America; toured Chile, crossed the Andes, and was last sighted alive on a ship called the Bella, which left Rio de Janeiro on 20 April 1854, bound for Kingston, Jamaica; it was never seen again; in 1865, a butcher calling himself Tomas Castro from Wagga Wagga, Australia, came forward, claiming to be Sir Roger; in Paris, Lady Tichborne recognized him as her son on 10 January 1867; most of the Tichborne family insisted that the new arrival was an impostor; The Claimant looked nothing like Roger, he was also unable to speak French, in which Roger had been fluent, and he had scant knowledge of Roger's past; enquiries in Australia and South America then began to connect the Claimant with Arthur Orton (b. Mar. 20, 1834); a former sweetheart of Orton's identified the Claimant as Orton; d Apr. 1, 1898).