Charles Talbot (priest)
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Charles Talbot (26 October 1769 – 28 February 1823) was an English churchman, Dean of Exeter from 1802, and Dean of Salisbury from 1809.{{cite book|author=Edmund Lodge|title=The Peerage of the British Empire as at Present Existing: Arranged and Printed from the Personal Communications of the Nobility|url=https://archive.org/details/peeragebritishe01lodggoog|year=1843|publisher=Saunders and Otley|page=[https://archive.org/details/peeragebritishe01lodggoog/page/n555 514]}}Ursula Radford (1955). "An Introduction to the Deans of Exeter". Report & Transactions of the Devonshire Association 87: 1–24.{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/visitationofengl31howa#page/24/mode/2up|title=Visitation of England and Wales|last=Howard|first=Joseph Jackson|author-link=Joseph Jackson Howard|author2=Frederick Arthur Crisp|author2-link=Frederick Arthur Crisp|year=1893|publisher=London|volume=31|page=25|accessdate=18 June 2015}}
Early life
His parents were the Rev. George Talbot, son of Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot of Hensol, and his wife Anne Bouverie, daughter of Jacob Bouverie, 1st Viscount Folkestone.{{cite book|author=Sylvanus Urban|title=Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x_lfAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA284|year=1832|publisher=Edward Cave|page=284}}
Career
He became rector of Wimborne in 1794.{{cite book|author=George III (King of Great Britain)|title=the later correspondence of george 3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=th49AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA53|year=1963|publisher=CUP Archive|page=53 note 2|id=GGKEY:3YY8WZ6WGT6}} He served as Dean of Exeter from 1802, and Dean of Salisbury from 1809.
Personal life
On 27 June 1796, Talbot married Lady Elizabeth Somerset, daughter of Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort and his wife Elizabeth Boscawen. They had 14 children, including:
- Frances Cecil Talbot (d. 1855), who married Hon. Philip Henry Abbot, son of Charles Abbot, 1st Baron Colchester. They had a son, and daughter.
- Maria Charlotte Talbot (d. 1827), who married Henry Every, son of Sir Henry Every, 9th Baronet. However she died a year after their marriage without issue.
- Georgiana Elizabeth Talbot (d. 1885), who married Rev. Augustus Philip Clayton, son of Sir William Clayton, 4th Baronet. They had a son, and daughter.
- Rev. Henry George Talbot (1798–1867), who married Mary Elizabeth Ponsonby, daughter of Maj.-Gen. Sir William Ponsonby.
- Rear-Adm. Charles Talbot (1801–1876), who also married a daughter of Maj.-Gen. Ponsonby, the Hon. Charlotte Georgiana Ponsonby. They had seven children.
- Col. George Talbot (1809–1871), who married Frances West, daughter of Lt.-Col. F. Ralph West of the 33rd Regiment. They had a son, Maj.-Gen. FitzRoy Somerset Talbot.
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