jannetta

Updated: June 18, 2025

But it was needless to produce more damning testimony than was brought forward. For twenty years the world has heard nothing more of the sham Sir Richard Hugh Smyth. In 1866, Mrs. Lavinia Jannetta Horton Ryves, and her son, William Henry Ryves, appeared before the English courts in support of one of the most extraordinary petitions on record.

Anonymous - Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton