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  • Although "Order" is only Yates' second feature after the little-seen "The Tichborne Claimant," his small-screen résumé includes the critically acclaimed "State of Play" a U.S. remake starring Brad Pitt is in the works and Emmy Award-winning "The Girl in the Café."

    Archive 2007-05-01 Darth Larry 2007

  • Even then he jocosely remarked that he believed that it was another Tichborne affair.

    How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

  • The great Tichborne trial was in progress then, and the spectacle of an illiterate impostor trying to establish his claim as the rightful heir to a great estate was highly diverting to Mark

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • And then, number one, you came up against the man in possession and had to produce your credentials like the claimant in the Tichborne case,

    Ulysses 2003

  • Another event of this period was the Tichborne trial, but though

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

  • He took a perfunctory 28 interest in the village school (where, by the by, Arthur Orton, the Tichborne claimant, received his elaborate education), and was for a time

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

  • The Tichborne trial recalled to Mark Twain the claimant in the Lampton family, who from time to time wrote him long letters, urging him to join in the effort to establish his rights to the earldom of Durham.

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • He visited Paraguay twice, and after the second journey made his way across the continent to Arica in Peru, whence he took ship to London via the Straits of Magellan. 217 During part of the voyage he had as fellow traveller Arthur Orton, the Tichborne claimant.

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

  • A Catholic noble who plotted to replace Queen Elizabeth with a monarch of his own faith, Tichborne was sent to the dreaded Tower of London to await execution for treason.

    Nevermore Harold Schechter 1999

  • It was composed in 1586 by a young Englishman named Chidiock Tichborne.

    Nevermore Harold Schechter 1999

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