There was a notorious 19th century legal case of the Tichborne Claimant, in which an English imposter, Arthur Orton, then living in Australia, claimed to be missing Tichborne family member Sir Roger Tichborne.
In the chancery proceedings by which, in 1867, the celebrated Orton or Castro first sought to establish his claim to the Tichborne baronetcy and estates, Barber held a brief for the defendants, as he did again in the first of the two actions of ejectment which were subsequently brought in the court of common pleas for the same purpose, in the well-known case of Tichborne v. Lushington, decided in 1872 after a trial which lasted 103 days.
Tichborne was the son of Sir William Tichborne of Beaulieu, County Louth; and grandson of the judge Sir Henry Tichborne, a younger son of Tudor MP, Sir Benjamin Tichborne, 1st Baronet, of Tichborne (see Tichborne Baronets).
Matilda Ellen Bishop (12 April 1842, Tichborne, Hampshire – Camberwell, London, 1 July 1913) was the first Principal of Royal Holloway College, University of London.
In July 1662 Tichborne was removed, to Holy Island, where he fell very ill, and was on his wife's petition transferred to Dover Castle.
The series also aired a Victorian-era mystery "The Tichborne Claimant", with Gladys Cooper portraying the Roman Catholic Lady Tichborne, who seeks the whereabouts of her son, Roger Cooper, who disappeared at sea.