Doughty family,Tichbourne case. Katherine Doughty (1834-1906) being comforted by Lady Doughty (died 1872). Katherine was cousin to Roger Tichbourne,the heir to a large fortune and baronetcy,who was missing presumed dead after a shipwreck in 1854. In 1866,a claimant was accepted by Tichbourne's mother. A failed civil case led to a criminal case in which the claimant was convicted in 1874 of perjury and falsely claiming to have seduced Katherine,and found to be Arthur Orton,son of a butcher from Wapping. Lithograph from volume 3 (1877) of the 9-volume 'The Trial at Bar of Sir Roger C. D. Tichborne' (1875-1880) | |
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