"But
I made him admit that he sent his photograph to some person,
as the photograph of Arthur Orton." He said the common people
in England still held to the belief that the Claimant was
the genuine Sir Roger Tichborne, and, by a curious contradiction,
this feeling was inspired largely by their sympathy with him
as a man of humble birth. I said, "Yes, I think that is true.
I heard somebody, a little while ago, say that they heard
two people talking in the cars, and one of them said to the
other, 'They wouldn't give him the estate, because he was
the son of a poor butcher.'" This very much amused the Lord
Chief Justice.
I asked him about the story I had heard and had verified
some time before, of the connection, in the person of Lady
Rolle, between two quite remote periods. Lady Rolle was
alive until 1887, maintaining her health so that she gave
dinner parties in that year, shortly before she died. She was
the widow of Mr. Rolle, afterward Lord Rolle, who made a
violent attack on Charles James Fox in 1783. He was then
thirty-two years old. From him the famous satire, the Rolliad,
took its name.
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