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===Arthur Orton=== {{Further|Arthur Orton}} [[Image:Tichborne claimant Arthur Orton.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|right|Orton as portrayed in ''[[Vanity Fair (British magazine)|Vanity Fair]]'' by [[Carlo Pellegrini (caricaturist)|'Ape']], June 1871]] Arthur Orton, a butcher's son born on 20 March 1834 in Wapping, had gone to sea as a boy and had been in Chile in the early 1850s.<ref name= ODNB/> Sometime in 1852 he arrived in [[Hobart]], Tasmania, in the transport ship ''Middleton'' and later moved to mainland Australia. His employment by Foster at Gippsland terminated around 1857 with a dispute over wages.<ref>Woodruff, pp. 102β103</ref> Thereafter he disappears; if he was not Castro, there is no further direct evidence of Orton's existence, although strenuous efforts were made to find him. The Claimant hinted that some of his activities with Orton were of a criminal nature and that to confound the authorities they had sometimes exchanged names. Most of Orton's family failed to recognise the Claimant as their long-lost kinsman, although it was later revealed that he had paid them money.<ref name= ODNB/><ref name=McW28/> A former sweetheart of Orton's, Mary Ann Loder, did identify the Claimant as Orton.<ref>Woodruff, p. 114</ref>
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