The Tichborne Claimant: A Tale of Two Butchers

Dark Histories

Ben Cutmore

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🗓️ 26 July 2022

⏱️ 79 minutes

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When Sir Roger Tichborne was shipwrecked and lost at sea in 1854, his mother fell into a deep state of mourning, both devastated by the loss of her son and insistent that he was still alive. As much as the rest of her family tried their best to convince her that Roger was not ever coming back, she just refused to stop searching. It was a stance that paid off handsomely then, when her long lost son made his triumphant return to England 12 years later with a plan to reclaim the family estate. It would be a claim that would make it to court and eventually be the longest running trial in English legal history, holding the title for over a hundred years and would light up the Victorian press with scandal, humour and class warfare that would last decades. SOURCES Annear, Robyn. (2002) The Man Who Lost Himself: The Unbelievable Story of the Tichborne Claimant. Constable & Robinson Ltd. London, UK. McWilliam, Rohan (2007) The Tichborne Claimant: A Victorian Sensation. Hambledon Continuum, London, UK. Kinsley, William, J. (1911) The Tichborne Case. The Yale Law Journal, Vol. 20, No. 7 (May, 1911), pp. 563-569. Saunders News-Letter (1867) From Our Own Correspondent. Monday 14 January 1867, Dublin, Ireland. Yorkshire Gazette (1867) Arrival of Sir Roger Tichborne Bart. Saturday 5 January 1867. Yorkshire, UK. London Evening Standard (1867) The Tichborne Baronetcy. Wednesday 23 January 1867. London, UK London Evening Standard (1872) A Last Appeal From The Claimant. Wednesday 27 March 1872. London, UK ---------- For almost anything, head over to the podcasts hub at darkhistories.com Support the show by using our link when you sign up to Audible: http://audibletrial.com/darkhistories or visit our Patreon for bonus episodes and Early Access: https://www.patreon.com/darkhistories The Dark Histories books are available to buy here: http://author.to/darkhistories Dark Histories merch is available here: https://bit.ly/3GChjk9 Connect with us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/darkhistoriespodcast Or find us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/darkhistories & Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dark_histories/ Or you can contact us directly via email at [email protected] or via voicemail on: (415) 286-5072 or join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/cmGcBFf The Dark Histories Butterfly was drawn by Courtney, who you can find on Instagram @bewildereye Music was recorded by me © Ben Cutmore 2017 Other Outro music was Paul Whiteman & his orchestra with Mildred Bailey - All of me (1931). It's out of copyright now, but if you're interested, that was that.

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0:00.0	When Sir Roger Titchborne was shipwrecked and lost at sea in 1854, his mother fell into
0:06.8	a deep state of mourning, both devastated by the loss of her son and insistent that he
0:11.6	was still alive. As much of the rest of her family tried their best to convince her that
0:16.5	Roger was not ever coming back, she just refused to stop searching.
0:20.6	It was a stance that paid off handsomely then, when her long lost son made his triumph
0:25.5	from return to England 12 years later with the plan to reclaim the family estate. It
0:31.1	would be a claim that would make it to court and eventually be the longest running trial
0:35.4	in English League with history, holding the title for over a hundred years and would light
0:40.2	up the Victorian press with scandal, humour and class warfare that would last decades.
0:46.5	This is Dark History where the facts are worse than fiction.
0:53.5	Hello and welcome to Dark History, season 6, episode 12. I'm Ben as always, just before
0:59.5	we get started this week, I've got a couple of little things I want to say. Firstly,
1:04.2	I just want to say thank you, I've got a few emails concerning the last episode from
1:09.1	people in Ireland and they just sort of thank me for doing the episode and a few people
1:16.4	sort of said thanks for doing it with nuance and things like that. I was in regards to
1:25.6	the context at the start where I talk about the history. I was just, yeah, thanks very
1:31.1	much for getting in touch and letting me know that because it is nice to know and it
1:35.3	was really satisfying to read those emails. So thank you for that. Anyway, then I've
1:39.1	blown my own trump here. I also want to thank Anne who gave a donation this week and she
1:46.6	says she was trying to buy some books from my Amazon wish list. I've got a, if you're
1:52.7	not sure what I'm talking about, I've got a book list on Amazon wish list for the Dark
1:56.1	History's for things that I'm thinking about like sort of researching the future and things
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