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<p>The <b>Tichborne case</b> was a legal <a href="page.php?w=cause_c%C3%A9l%C3%A8bre">cause célèbre</a> that fascinated <a href="page.php?w=Victorian_Britain">Victorian Britain</a> in the 1860s and 1870s. It concerned the claims by a man sometimes referred to as Thomas Castro or as <a href="page.php?w=Arthur_Orton">Arthur Orton</a>, but usually termed "the Claimant", to be the missing heir to the <a href="page.php?w=Tichborne_baronets">Tichborne baronetcy</a>. He failed to convince the courts, was convicted of <a href="page.php?w=perjury">perjury</a></p><p>
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