The jury in the Tichborne trial

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

This jury 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 Herbert Watkins of London.