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Arthur Orton

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Arthur Orton (20 March 1834 – 1 April 1898), the son of a London butcher, went to sea as a boy, spent a year in Chile, and worked as a butcher and stockman for squatters in Australia in the middle-to-late 1850s. [1]

24 relations: A Universal History of Infamy, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Carlo Pellegrini (caricaturist), Chile, Colonial Times, Gippsland, Gippsland Times, Hobart, Jack Whicher, Jorge Luis Borges, Melipilla, National Library of New Zealand, Port Albert, Scotland Yard, Squatting (pastoral), Stockman (Australia), Tasmania, The Mercury (Hobart), The Sunday People, Tichborne baronets, Tichborne case, Victoria (Australia), Wagga Wagga, Wapping.

A Universal History of Infamy

A Universal History of Infamy, or A Universal History of Iniquity (original Spanish title: Historia universal de la infamia), is a collection of short stories by Jorge Luis Borges, first published in 1935, and revised by the author in 1954.

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Australian Dictionary of Biography

The Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB or AuDB) is a national co-operative enterprise founded and maintained by the Australian National University (ANU) to produce authoritative biographical articles on eminent people in Australia's history.

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Carlo Pellegrini (caricaturist)

Carlo Pellegrini (25 March 1839 – 22 January 1889), who did much of his work under the pseudonym of Ape (Italian for "bee"), was an artist who served from 1869 to 1889 as a caricaturist for Vanity Fair magazine, a leading journal of London society.

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Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a South American country occupying a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west.

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Colonial Times

The Colonial Times was a newspaper in Tasmania, Australia.

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Gippsland

Gippsland is an economic rural region of Victoria, Australia, located in the south-eastern part of that state.

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Gippsland Times

The Gippsland Times is a newspaper published in Sale, Victoria, Australia since 1861.

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Hobart

Hobart is the capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania.

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Jack Whicher

Detective Inspector Jonathan "Jack" Whicher (1 October 1814–29 June 1881) was one of the original eight members of the newly formed Detective Branch which was established at Scotland Yard in 1842.

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Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish-language literature.

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Melipilla

Melipilla (Mapudungun for "four Pillans") is a Chilean commune and capital city of the province of the same name, located in the Santiago Metropolitan Region southwest of the nation's capital.

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National Library of New Zealand

The National Library of New Zealand (Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa) is New Zealand's legal deposit library charged with the obligation to "enrich the cultural and economic life of New Zealand and its interchanges with other nations" (National Library of New Zealand (Te Puna Mātauranga) Act 2003).

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Port Albert

Port Albert is a coastal town in Victoria, Australia, on the coast of Corner Inlet on the Yarram - Port Albert Road, south-east of Morwell, south-east of Melbourne, in the Shire of Wellington.

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Scotland Yard

Scotland Yard (officially New Scotland Yard) is a metonym for the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), the territorial police force responsible for policing most of London.

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Squatting (pastoral)

In Australian history, a squatter was typically a man, either a free settler or ex-convict, who occupied a large tract of Crown land in order to graze livestock.

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Stockman (Australia)

In Australia a stockman (plural stockmen) is a person who looks after the livestock on a large property known as a station, which is owned by a grazier or a grazing company.

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Tasmania

Tasmania (abbreviated as Tas and known colloquially as Tassie) is an island state of Australia.

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The Mercury (Hobart)

The Mercury is a centre-right daily newspaper, published in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, by Davies Brothers Pty Ltd, part of News Corp Australia and News Corp.

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The Sunday People

The Sunday People is a British tabloid Sunday newspaper, founded as The People on 16 October 1881.

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Tichborne baronets

*There have been two baronetcies created for persons with the surname Tichborne, both in the Baronetage of England.

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Tichborne case

The Tichborne case was a legal cause célèbre that captivated Victorian England in the 1860s and 1870s.

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Victoria (Australia)

Victoria (abbreviated as Vic) is a state in south-eastern Australia.

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Wagga Wagga

Wagga Wagga (informally called Wagga) is a major regional city in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia.

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Wapping

Wapping is a district in London Docklands, England, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Orton

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