In 1649 Robert Tichborne petitioned the House of Commons in favour of the execution of Charles I.

and Tichborne Park House.

The Wandering Heir ( 1875 ), of which he also wrote a version for the stage, was suggested by the Tichborne Case.

Soon after he had begun to make his mark he was briefed against the claimant in the famous Tichborne Case.

He was engaged in most of the celebrated trials of his time, including the Overend and Gurney and the Tichborne cases.

In 1871 he was also involved in the high-publicity Tichborne Case.

This was followed by an inaugural local village cricket competition, with participating teams from Tichborne, Old Alresford, Ropley and Cheriton, for the annual John Arlott Cup.

He was born in Southampton sometime after 24 August 1562 to Roman Catholic parents, Peter Tichborne and his wife Elizabeth ( née Middleton ).

Chidiock's second cousin and contemporary was Sir Benjamin Tichborne who lived at Tichborne Park and was created a Baronet by King James I in 1621.

Chidiock Tichborne was never called Charles-this is an error that has grown from a misprint in the AQA GCSE English Literature syllabus which has included the Elegy in its early poetry section for several years.

In June 1586, Tichborne agreed to take part in the Babington Plot to murder Queen Elizabeth and replace her with the Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots, who was next in line to the throne.

The plot was foiled by Sir Francis Walsingham, Elizabeth's spymaster, using double agents, most notably Robert Poley who was later witness to the murder of Christopher Marlowe, and though most of the conspirators fled, Tichborne had an injured leg and was forced to remain in London.

On 20 September 1586, Tichborne was executed with Anthony Babington, John Ballard, and four other conspirators.

His offer to Elizabeth of £ 1000 for his pardon was rejected, and the execution of the first seven ( including Babington, John Ballard, and Chidiock Tichborne ) took place on the 20th.

He was married to Emily Joseph, daughter of Sir Henry Joseph Tichborne.

However, Keeler has said he was inspired by the Tichborne Case of nineteenth century England.

There was a notorious 19th century legal case of the Tichborne Claimant, in which an English imposter, Arthur Orton, then living in Australia, claimed to be missing Tichborne family member Sir Roger Tichborne.

He was twice married, and in addition to children by both wives he left an illegitimate daughter, Henriette Felicity, who married Sir James Doughty-Tichborne, by whom she was the mother of Roger Tichborne, impersonated in 1871 by the famous impostor Arthur Orton.

At Tichborne, after touching the edge of New Alresford, the path cuts the corner to Ovington.

In 1583, Tichborne and his father, Peter, were arrested and questioned concerning the use of " popish relics ", religious objects Tichborne had brought back from a visit he had made abroad without informing the authorities of an intention to travel.

This first group included Babington, Ballard, Chidiock Tichborne, Sir Thomas Salisbury, Robert Barnewell, John Savage and Henry Donn.

* Arthur Orton, also known as the Tichborne Claimant, claimed to be the missing heir Sir Roger Tichborne.

Chidiock descended from Sir Roger de Tichborne who owned land at Tichborne, near Winchester, in the twelfth century.

The Tichborne family is ancient and believed to have held land at Tichborne from before the Norman Conquest.

The Tichborne family has held the manor since the 12th century.

The Elegy has also been set to music many times from the Elizabethan era to the present day by, among others, Michael East, Richard Alison ( fl1580-1610, in An Hour's Recreation in musicke, 1606 ), John Mundy ( 1592 ) and Charles-François Gounod ( 1873 ) and more recently Norman Dello Joio ( 1949 ) and Jim Clark ( see http :// wn. com / Tichborne ' s_Elegy_Poem_animation ).

* Audio: Robert Pinsky reads " Tichborne's Elegy " by Chidiock Tichborne ( via poemsoutloud. net )

The worst night of bombing took place on 19 November 1940 when several buildings at the corner of Highfield Street and Tichborne Street were destroyed and 41 people killed. The sites are now occupied by a community hall and a garage.

The north aisle is now railed off to form the Tichborne Chapel, with monuments to members of the manorial family.

Notable practitioners of elegiac poetry have included Propertius, Jorge Manrique, Jan Kochanowski, Chidiock Tichborne, Edmund Spenser, Ben Jonson, John Milton, Thomas Gray, Charlotte Turner Smith, William Cullen Bryant, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Evgeny Baratynsky, Alfred Tennyson, Walt Whitman, Louis Gallet, Antonio Machado, Juan Ramón Jiménez, William Butler Yeats, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Virginia Woolf.

* May 11 – The first trial in the case of Tichborne Claimant begins in the London Court of Common Pleas.

** Chidiock Tichborne, English conspirator and poet ( executed ) ( b. 1558 )

** Chidiock Tichborne, English conspirator and poet ( d. 1586 )

She wrote a play, The Claimant, based on the Tichborne Case.

The strain, however, of the Tichborne trials had been great, so that his physical health became unequal to the tasks which his zeal for work imposed upon it, and in 1879 his acceptance of a position as a High Court judge in the Queen's Bench division, on the retirement of Mr Justice Mellor, gave him the opportunity of comparative rest.

Some churches still continue these hand outs as traditions in England, such as the Wayfarer's Dole, St Briavels Bread & Cheese Dole and the Tichborne Dole.

Kenealy came to national prominence in 1874 when he acted as leading counsel for the Tichborne Claimant, which became one of the most notorious trials in 19th century British legal history, leading to Kenealy being disbarred from his profession.

He attributed it to Lord Bowen, said to have coined it as junior counsel defending the Tichborne Claimant case in 1871.

Initially the river flows north, through the villages of Cheriton and Tichborne, before joining up with its tributaries the River Arle and the Candover Brook, just below the town of New Alresford.

Chidiock ( Charles ) Tichborne ( 1563 – 20 September 1586 ) is remembered as an English conspirator and poet.

Chidiock's father Peter appears to be the youngest son of Henry Tichborne ( born circa 1474 ) and Anne Mervin ( or Marvin ) but the records are unclear.