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The Claimant: The Extraordinary Story of the Australian Butcher Who Said He Was a Baronet

By Paul Terry

Book information

Publisher
The Five Mile Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9781760403638, 9781760403621, 9781760403645
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (3405244 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2023-01-05 03:43:43
History; Nonfiction; HIS000000

Description

The Extraordinary Story of the Australian Butcher who said he was a Baronet It's 1866, and from the dusty frontier town of Wagga Wagga comes a man who sets Victorian England alight – the likes of which have never been seen before or since. A tale so preposterous that its veracity is still debated today. Tom Castro – or was he Arthur Orton? – an obese, toothless butcher who lives in a slab-hut with his illiterate wife and children, suddenly comes forward and claims he is Roger Tichborne, the rightful Baronet of Tichborne Park, Hampshire, and head of one of England's oldest, most noble Catholic families. Incredibly, the family matriarch agrees.

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