Sir William Talbot, 3rd Baronet

William was born about 1643, the only son of Garret Talbot and his wife Margaret Gaydon.Mosley, ed. Burke's Peerage 107th Edition Delaware 2003 Vol. 3 p.3854 His father was the third of eight brothers, of whom the most eminent were Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, and Peter Talbot, Archbishop of Dublin. All three brothers served the Stuart dynasty with notable loyalty during the English Civil War and the Interregnum, and William shared his family's loyalty to the Stuarts.

Talbot was called to the Bar, succeeded to his father's title in 1670, and for a time acted as Secretary to the Province of Maryland,{{Sfn|Ball|1926|p=[https://archive.org/details/judgesinireland10000unse/page/365/ 365, line 9]|ps=. "... acted as secretary of the colony of Maryland 1670—1;"}} presumably at the request of his maternal uncle, Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, who was Proprietor of Maryland.

The Talbot family was devoutly Roman Catholic; William's uncle Archbishop Talbot died in prison in 1680, a victim of the fabricated Popish Plot.{{Sfn|Kenyon|1972|p=[https://archive.org/details/popishplot00jpke/page/204/ 204]|ps=. "He [the king] declined even to release Peter Talbot, Archbishop of Dublin, who had been imprisoned without trial since October 1678, and died, still in Dublin Castle, in November 1681."}} Perhaps inspired by his uncle's example, Sir William in 1682 made a public plea for religious toleration of Catholics. He became a Commissioner of the Revenue in 1682, a member of the Privy Council of Ireland in 1687 and Master of the Rolls in 1689.{{Sfn|Ball|1926|p=[https://archive.org/details/judgesinireland10000unse/page/365/ 365, line 15]|ps=. "... was designated as a commissioner of the revenue in Ireland 1685; became a member of the privy council 1687; was appointed master of the rolls 1689;"}}

He married in 1683 Lady Anne Nugent, widow of Lucas Dillon, 6th Viscount Dillon, and daughter of Richard Nugent, 2nd Earl of Westmeath and Mary Nugent;{{Sfn|Lodge|1789|p=[https://archive.org/details/peerageofireland04lodg/page/191/ 191, line 1]|ps=. "... and to his second wife, about the latter end of the year 1681, the Lady Anne Nugent, eldest daughter of Richard, earl of Westmeath ..."}}{{Sfn|Ball|1926|p=[https://archive.org/details/judgesinireland10000unse/page/365/ 365, line 12]|ps=. "married the Honourable Anne Nugent, daughter of Richard, Earl of Westmeath, and widow of Lucas, Viscount Dillon of Costello, later in that year [1683];"}} she died in 1710.Burke's Peerage p.3854 They had no children.

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His open Catholic beliefs, combined with the influence of his uncle Lord Tyrconnell who, as Lord Deputy of Ireland, became for a short time almost all-powerful in Ireland, gained him preferment, especially during the reign of the ardently Catholic King James II. Like all the judges promoted by James II, his knowledge of the law and the size of his practice were the subject of harsh criticism by his enemies.

He sat in the Patriot Parliament of 1689 as member for Meath.{{Sfn|O'Hart|1892|p=[https://archive.org/details/irishpedigreesor02ohar/page/774/ 774]|ps=. "County Meath – Sir William Talbot, and Sir Patk, Barnwall, Barts."}}

After the downfall of James II, Talbot was attainted and his lands and title were subsequently forfeited under the Williamite Settlement.

He died either in Ireland, at Galway, in May 1691,Burke's Peerage p.3854 or on the continent, in France or in Spain, on 26 December 1724.{{Sfn|G. E. C.|1900|p=[https://archive.org/details/cu31924092524374/page/n271/ 248]|ps=. "He appears to have resided in France, or Spain. He d. 26 Dec. 1724, in his 82d year, when the Baronetcy is presumed to have been extinct."}}

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• {{Cite book|last=Ball |first=Francis Elrington |author-link=F. Elrington Ball |date=1926 |title=The Judges in Ireland 1221–1921 |edition=1st |volume=I |publisher=John Murray |location=London |oclc=832154869 |url=https://archive.org/details/judgesinireland10000unse/}} – 1221 to 1690
• {{Cite book|last=Burke |first=Bernard |author-link=Bernard Burke |date=1883 |title=A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire |edition=New |publisher=Harrison |location=London |oclc=499232768 |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015088438141}}
• {{Cite book|last1=Burke |first1=Bernard |author1-link=Bernard Burke |last2=Burke |first2=Ashworth Peter |date=1915 |title=A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage, the Privy Council, Knightage and Companionage |edition=77th |publisher=Harrison |location=London |oclc=1155471554 |url=https://archive.org/details/b3136410x/}}
• {{Cite book|author=G. E. C. |author-link=George Edward Cokayne |date=1900 |title=Complete Baronetage, 1611 to 1800 |edition=1st |volume=I |publisher=William Pollard & Co |location=Exeter |oclc=866278985 |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924092524374/}} – 1611 to 1625
• {{Cite book|last=Kenyon |first=John |author-link=John Philipps Kenyon |date=1972 |title=The Popish Plot |publisher=St. Martin's Press |location=New York |oclc=1036783743 |url=https://archive.org/details/popishplot00jpke/ |url-access=registration}}
• {{Cite book|last=Lodge |first=John |author-link=John Lodge (archivist) |editor-last=Archdall |editor-first=Mervyn |editor-link=Mervyn Archdall (Irish antiquary) |date=1789 |title=The Peerage of Ireland or, A Genealogical History of the Present Nobility of that Kingdom |volume=IV |publisher=James Moore |location=Dublin |oclc=264906028 |url=https://archive.org/details/peerageofireland04lodg/}} – Viscounts
• {{Cite book|last=O'Hart |first=John |author-link=John O'Hart |date=1892 |title=Irish Pedigrees: Or, the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation |edition=5th |volume=I |publisher=James Duffy & Co. |location=Dublin |oclc=7239210 |url=https://archive.org/details/irishpedigrees00unkngoog/}} – Irish stem

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