In 1867 an Englishman in London declared he was Sir Roger Charles Tichborne, and claimed the estates and income of $120,000 a year. The Dowager accepted him, but his claim was resisted on behalf of Sir Henry Tichborne, then a minor, and the trial of the claim began May 11, 1871, and on the 6th March, 1872, the "claimant" was declared non-suited. The Attorney-General, Sir J. D. Coleridge, who spoke twenty-six days, appeared for the defence, and Dr. Kenealy for the claimant. The claimant was prosecuted as Thomas Castro alias Arthur Orton, for perjury, and found guilty February 28, 1874, and sentenced to fourteen years' penal servitude. The judges refused a new trial, and the House of Lords confirmed the sentence on appeal, March 11, 1881. This was the longest trial on record in England.