The Claimant in The Tichborne case in court. A legal cause c?l?bre that captivated Victorian England in the 1860s and 1870s concerning the claims by an individual sometimes referred to as Thomas Castro or Arthur Orton, but usually termed "the Claimant", to be the missing heir to the Tichborne baronetcy. From The Century Edition of Cassell's History of England, published c. 1900