Can anyone tell me who Sir Roger Titchbourne was?

Question

I have just moved to west sussex and there is a pub called the Roger Titchbourne, it has closed down I have looked on the internet but can't find any info

Answer 1

Sir Roger Titchbourne was a local lord in Alresford, Hampshire. According to tradition, his wife, who was ailing, wanted him to give corn to the poor, and he agreed to give the corn from his land she could crawl around while holding a torch. Not a very nice man....

Answer 2

A version of the the Lady Godiva legend - The inhabitants of St. Briavels are said to have been granted the privilege of cutting wood in Hudnolls by the Earl of Hereford at the instance of his wife, on the same terms as Lady Godiva: S. Rudder, New Hist. of Glos. 307. According to the Dunster tradition, Sir John de Mohun's wife gained for the people as much common land as she could make a circuit of, barefoot, in a day: Harris, Story of Cov. 18 sqq. Otmoor (Oatmoor) is said to have been so-called because a lady gave as much land as she could ride round while an oat sheaf was turning: J. Dunkin, Oxon.: Hundreds of Bullingdon and Ploughley (1823), i. 119-20. Sir Roger de Titchbourne promised his dying wife that he would give a dole to the poor from as much land as she could crawl round while he held a burning torch: B. B. Woodward, T. C. Wilks, and C. Lockhart, Hants., ii. 17-18. All these stories have elements that could be paralleled in myth.

From: 'The City of Coventry: The legend of Lady Godiva', A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 8: The City of Coventry and Borough of Warwick (1969), pp. 242-47. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=16031. Date accessed: 11 November 2006.

Roger Tichbourne
Parental family: Nicholas Tichbourne and Ann White
Sex: Male
Birth Date: about 1528

Alternatively:

Stepney Folk

The Tichbourne Claimant
Arthur Orton/Thomas Castro was also known as the Tichborne Claimant. English butcher and imposter, born in Wapping High Street, London. He emigrated to Australia in 1852 where he met Sir Alfred Joseph Tichborne, 11th baronet (1839-66).

On the death of the 11th baronet, he persuaded the widow of the 10th baronet (Sir Francis Doughty Tichborne) that he was actually her eldest son, Roger Charles Tichborne (b.1829), who was presumed to have been lost at sea off America in 1854 despite the fact he bore little resemblance to the man.

Invited to England in 1866, he brought an action as the 'Tichborne Claimant' against the 12th baronet, but his action collapsed after 102 days in court. Orton was charged with perjury and found guilty after a lengthy trial of 188 days in 1874, and sentenced to 14 years' hard labour. Released in 1884, he confessed the imposture and died in 1888.

Answer 3

I found him. He was the son of a rich family who boarded a ship bound for New York from England and the ship went down at sea. He had a brother named Edward and a woman named Kate Doughty who was to be his wife. A year after Roger was supposedly drowned at sea a butcher in Australia wrote to his mother claiming to be her son but was found to be lying. Go to ask.com and type in his name. You'll find more there.

Answer 4

Ah yes! Thank you Grey Lady!

Having read the question I was scratching my head for the answer. The Tichbourne Controversy. Of course!!!

Answer 5

no sorry

Actually thats not true. check this out
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tichborne_Claimant