Claimant Collection

William Ballantine
SERGEANT WILLIAM BALLANTINE English lawyer who led case for Tichborne Claimant Date: 1812 - 1887

Norton I / American Royal
JOSHUA " EMPEROR" NORTON I Claimant to the imperial throne of North America (1859); he made a fortune in real-estate speculation

Lambert Simnel working in the Royal Kitchens
Lambert Simnel (circa 1477circa 1525) - pretender to the throne of England. His claim to be Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick, in 1487 threatened the newly-established reign of King Henry VII

Charles Edward Stuart's sword
Sword of Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Stuart claimant to the throne. Date: 18th century

POULETT JUNIOR CLAIMANT
WILLIAM JOHN LYDSTON POULETT junior claimant to the earldom of Poulett at the death of the sixth earl, Date: circa 1899+

POULETT SENIOR CLAIMANT
WILLIAM TURNOUR THOMAS POULETT claimant to the earldom of Poulett at the death of the sixth earl, earning a living as a street musician. Date: circa 1899

Cartoon, Lord Coleridge, British lawyer and judge
Cartoon, John Duke Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge (1820-1894), British lawyer, judge, and Lord Chief Justice of England. Ah! I must go to the music-hall

Prince Philippe, Count of Paris (1838-1894), claimant to the French throne. 1870

Bonnie Prince Charlie in hiding in the moors of Scotland
Bonnie Prince Charlie (1720-1788) - the elder son of James Francis Edward Stuart, grandson of James II and VII, and the Stuart claimant to the throne of Great Britain in hiding in a cave in Scotland

Harold swears fealty to Duke William
Allegedly after being shipwrecked on the French coast in 1064 (a date highly disputed amongst historians), The Bayeux Tapestry, and other Norman sources

Zaro Agha - the Oldest man in the world - aged 156! - who toured with Bertram Mills Circus. Born in 1775 at Bitlis in Turkey, he fought against Napoleon at the Siege of Acre in Syria

The Sackville claimant case
A Twentieth-Century Claimant - characters in the Sackville case. Ernest Henri Jean Baptiste Sackville-West claimed to be the lawful son of the late Lord Sackville and Josefa Duran de Ortega

Perkin Warbeck at Beaulieu Abbey in the New Forest
Perkin Warbeck (c.1474-1499) takes refuge at Beaulieu Abbey in the New Forest. By claiming to be Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York (the younger of the two Princes in the Tower)

Frederick Albert Cook - American Polar Explorer
Frederick Albert Cook (1865-1940) - Polar Explorer, physician, and ethnographer, noted for his claim of having reached the North Pole on April 21st, 1908

Duc De Chambord
HENRI, duc de Bordeaux and comte de CHAMBORD, grandson of Charles X and son of duc de Berry, claimant to the French throne, known to legitimists as Henry V. Date: 1820 - 1883

Duc De Chambord (Young)
HENRI, duc de Bordeaux and comte de CHAMBORD, grandson of Charles X and son of duc de Berry, claimant to the French throne, known to legitimists as Henry V. When young. Date: 1820 - 1883

Caricature of William Ballantine
WILLIAM BALLANTINE (1812 - 1887) Lawyer, sergeant-at-law, notable for leading the case for the Tichborne Claimant. Date: circa 1850

Comte De Chambord 1849
HENRI de Bourbon, comte de CHAMBORD grandson of Charles X claimant to the French throne Date: 1820 - 1883

Henri, Comte De Chambord
HENRI, COMTE DE CHAMBORD Bourbon claimant to the French throne, known to loyalists as Henri V Date: 1820 - 1883

Imre Thokoly - 2
IMRE (Emmerich) THOKOLY Hungarian rebel and claimant to the throne, who sided with the Turks against the Empire. Date: 1657 - 1705

Imre Thokoly - 1
IMRE (Emmerich) THOKOLY Hungarian rebel and claimant to the throne, who sided with the Turks against the Empire. Date: 1657 - 1705

Marie Duchesse Orleans
MARIE ISABEAU, duchesse d ORLEANS. known as the COMTESSE DE PARIS, wife of Louis Philippe, claimant to the French throne. Date: 1848 - 1919

Orleans Comte De Paris
LOUIS-PHILIPPE-ALBERT d ORLEANS. known as the Comte de Paris, son of Ferdinand duc d Orleans, grandson of Louis Philippe, unsuccessful claimant to the throne. Date: 1838 - 1894

Louis Philippe Orleans
LOUIS-PHILIPPE-ROBERT, duc d ORLEANS, claimant to the French throne, scientist and traveller; with his bride the archduchess Marie-Dorothee. Date: 1869 - 1926

Dom Miguel, Claimant
Miguel Maria Evaristo de Braganza, known as DOM MIGUEL Portuguese royal claimant Date: 1802 - 1866

Charles Edward, the Young Pretender (1720-1788)

Commander Peary and Captain Bartlett
Robert Edwin Peary (1856 1920), explorer and adventurer, who claimed on April 6th 1909 to have been the first man to reach the North Pole, although this claim is widely doubted today

Street music: organ grinder claimant, 1873
The " nobleman" organ grinder: a claimant to a title whilst on tour through the Irish provinces. Though he refused to name himself

Napoleon J C P Bonaparte
Prince NAPOLEON JOSEPH- CHARLES-PAUL BONAPARTE Son of Napoleons youngest brother Jerome; claimant to French throne : with his sons Victor and Louis

Arthur Orton / Vfair 1871
Arthur Orton, who claimed to be sir Roger Doughty Tichborne, but couldn t persuade the courts to agree with him

Perkin Warbeck Pilloried
Perkin Warbeck, claimant to the English crown, is placed in the pillory on the orders of Henry VII

Orleans / Lpa / Claimant 82
LOUIS-PHILIPPE-ALBERT COMTE DE PARIS Pretender to the French crown; served in the American Civil War (1861-2)

Don Carlos / Sepia Oval
DON CARLOS alias CARLOS MARIA DE LOS DOLORES DE BORBON Claimant to the Spanish throne

Don Carlos / Moloch 1882
DON CARLOS alias CARLOS MARIA DE LOS DOLORES DE BORBON Claimant to the Spanish throne

Monmouth (Riley)
James Scott, duke of MONMOUTH son of Charles II and his mistress Lucy Walter. Claimant to the English throne and leader of unsuccessful rebellion against James II

Capture of Robert / 1106
Duke Robert Curthose is captured by Baudri after attempting to break the siege at Tinchebrai, started by the rival claimant to Normandy, his brother Henry

Carlos VI (Iii)
CARLOS VI (III) son of emperor Leopold I, claimant to Spanish throne, ruled (sort of) 1700 but rejected, leading to Spanish Succession war, with his autograph

MONMOUTH (1649 -1685)
JAMES SCOTT Duke of Monmouth; son of Charles II and his mistress Lucy Walter. Claimant to the English throne and leader of rebellion against James II. Date: 1649 - 1685

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