Editing Tichborne case (section)

==Claimant appears==
===In Australia===
[[File:Thomas Castro's butcher shop sketch.jpg|thumb|left|Thomas Castro's butcher's shop in [[Wagga Wagga]], Australia]]
In October 1865 Cubitt informed Lady Tichborne that William Gibbes, a lawyer from [[Wagga Wagga]], had identified Roger Tichborne in the person of a bankrupt local butcher using the name Thomas Castro.<ref name=W38>Woodruff, pp. 38–40</ref> During his bankruptcy examination Castro had mentioned an entitlement to property in England. He had also talked of experiencing a shipwreck and was smoking a briar pipe which carried the initials "R.C.T." When challenged by Gibbes to reveal his true name, Castro had initially been reticent but eventually agreed that he was indeed the missing Roger Tichborne; henceforth he became generally known as the Claimant.<ref name= McW14/><ref name= W38/>

Cubitt offered to accompany the supposed lost son back to England and wrote to Lady Tichborne requesting funds.<ref>Woodruff, p. 42</ref>{{refn|Cubitt remained in Australia. He and Gibbes reportedly received rewards in the sums of £1,000 and £500, respectively, for their parts in finding the Claimant.<ref>Annear, p. 79</ref>|group= n}} Meanwhile, Gibbes asked the Claimant to make out a will and to write to his mother. The will incorrectly gave Lady Tichborne's name as "Hannah Frances", and disposed of numerous non-existent parcels of supposed Tichborne property.<ref>McWilliam 2007, p. 16</ref> In the letter to his mother, the Claimant's references to his former life were vague and equivocal but were enough to convince Lady Tichborne that he was her elder son. Her willingness to accept the Claimant may have been influenced by the death of her younger son, Alfred, in February.<ref name= W45>Woodruff, pp. 45–48</ref>

In June 1866 the Claimant moved to Sydney, where he was able to raise money from banks on the basis of a statutory declaration that he was Roger Tichborne. The statement was later found to contain many errors, although the birthdate and parentage details were given correctly. It included a brief account of how he had arrived in Australia: he and others from the sinking ''Bella'', he said, had been picked up by the ''Osprey'', bound for Melbourne.<ref name= W52>Woodruff, pp. 52–54</ref> On arrival he had taken the name Thomas Castro from an acquaintance from Melipilla and had wandered for some years before settling in Wagga Wagga. He had married a pregnant housemaid, Mary Ann Bryant, and taken her child, a daughter, as his own; a further daughter had been born in March 1866.<ref name= W45/><ref>Annear, pp. 5–6</ref>

While in Sydney the Claimant encountered two former servants of the Tichborne family. One was a gardener, Michael Guilfoyle, who at first acknowledged the identity of Roger Tichborne but later changed his mind when asked to provide money to facilitate the return to England.<ref name= W52/> The second, Andrew Bogle, was a former slave at the Jamaican plantation of the [[Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos|Duke of Buckingham and Chandos]] who had thereafter worked for Sir Edward for many years before retiring. The elderly Bogle did not immediately recognise the Claimant, whose {{convert|189|lb|st kg|adj=on}} weight contrasted sharply with Roger's remembered slender build; however, Bogle quickly accepted that the Claimant was Roger, and remained convinced until the end of his life.<ref>McWilliam 2007, p. 17</ref> On 2 September 1866 the Claimant, having received funds from England, sailed from Sydney on board the ''Rakaia'' with his wife and children in first class, and a small retinue including Bogle and his youngest son Henry George in second class.<ref name= W55>Woodruff, pp. 55–56</ref>{{refn|Bogle's second son, Andrew, Jr., a successful barber and hairdresser in Sydney with eleven children, had to himself advance the funds needed to pay for his father and brother's passage to England.|group= n}} Good living in Sydney had raised his weight on departure to {{convert|210|lb|st kg}}, and during the long voyage he added another {{convert|40|lb|st kg}}.<ref>Annear, pp. 80, 82</ref> After a journey involving several changes of ship, the party arrived at [[Tilbury]] on 25 December 1866.<ref name= W55/>

===Recognition in France===
[[File:LadyTichborne.jpg|thumb|upright|Lady Tichborne, Sir Roger Tichborne's mother]]
After depositing his family in a London hotel, the Claimant called at Lady Tichborne's address and was told she was in Paris. He then went to Wapping in East London, where he enquired after a local family named Orton. Finding that they had left the area, he identified himself to a neighbour as a friend of Arthur Orton, who, he said, was now one of the wealthiest men in Australia. The significance of the Wapping visit would become apparent only later.<ref>McWilliam 2007, pp. 18–19</ref> On 29 December the Claimant visited Alresford and stayed at the Swan Hotel, where the landlord detected a resemblance to the Tichbornes. The Claimant confided that he was the missing Sir Roger but asked that this be kept secret. He also sought information concerning the Tichborne family.<ref>Woodruff, pp. 57–58</ref>

Back in London, the Claimant employed a [[solicitor]], John Holmes, who agreed to go with him to Paris to meet Lady Tichborne.<ref>McWilliam 2007, p. 21</ref> This meeting took place on 11 January at the Hôtel de Lille. As soon as she saw his face, Lady Tichborne accepted him. At Holmes's behest she lodged with the British Embassy a signed declaration formally testifying that the Claimant was her son. She was unmoved when Father Châtillon, Roger's childhood tutor, declared the Claimant an impostor, and she allowed Holmes to inform ''The Times'' in London that she had recognised Roger.<ref name= McW23/> She settled an income of £1,000 a year on him,{{refn|£1,000 a year was a considerable sum at that time. Using the calculations of current value devised by MeasuringWorth.com, an annual income of £1,000 in 1867 equated in 2011 to £72,000 on the basis of the [[retail price index]], and to £556,000 on the basis of average earnings.<ref name= MW>{{cite web|title= Five Ways to Compute the Relative Value of a UK Pound Amount, 1830 to present|url= http://www.measuringworth.com/ukcompare/|publisher = MeasuringWorth|access-date = 23 March 2012}}</ref>|group= n}} and accompanied him to England to declare her support before the more sceptical members of the Tichborne family.<ref name= McW23>McWilliam 2007, p. 23</ref>