The jury in the Tichborne trial

A carte-de-visite portrait of the jury in the second (criminal) Tichborne trial.

A printed caption verso gives the names of all the members of the jury, who were markedly more middle-class than the members of the jury in the first (civil) trial. Rather than bankers, naval captains and a future earl, this jury comprised two publicans, two hosiers, a milkman, a shoemaker, a lodging house keeper and a butcher; the foreman was a linen draper.

The trial was one of the longest cases heard in an English court. It began on 21 April 1873 and lasted until 28 February 1874, occupying 188 court days.

Photographed by Watkins and Haigh of London.

Entered at Stationer's Hall [a part of the copyright process] by Herbert Watkins and Edward Haigh on 14 July 1873.