TALBOT, Charles (1660-1718) | HoP Development Site

Family and Education

b. 24 July 1660 1st s. Francis Talbot, 11th earl of Shrewsbury, and 2nd w. Lady Anna Maria (1642-1702), da. Robert Brudenell, 2nd earl of Cardigan. educ. travelled abroad 1674-8 (France). HMC Buccleuch, ii. 17-28. m. 9 Sept. 1705 (at Augsburg) Adelaide (Adela, Adelide, Adelhida) Countess Roffeni (d.1726), da. of Andrea, Marchese Paleotti and Maria Christina Dudley, wid. of Count Roffeni, s.p. d. 1 Feb. 1718; will 19 July 1712–8 Jan. 1718, pr. 21 Feb. 1718. TNA, PROB 11/562.

Offices Held

Extra gent. of the bedchamber 1683 – 85; sec. of state (south) 1689–90, CSP Dom. 1689–90, p. 17. (north) 1694 – 95, (south) 1695 – 98; ld. justice 1695; ld. chamberlain 1699 – 1700, 1710 – 15; amb. extr. to France 1712 – 13; ld. lt. of Ireland 1713 – 14; ld. treas. 1714; PC 1689 – 92, 1694 – 1702, 1710–d. TNA, PC 2/74; CSP Dom. 1694–5, p. 204.

Ld. lt. Heref. 1694 – 1704, Herts. 1689 – 92, Salop 1712 – 14, Staffs. 1681 – 87, N. Wales 1694 – 96, Worcs. 1689 – d.; custos rot. Staffs. 1681 – 88, Herts. 1689 and liberty of St Albans 1690; TNA, C231/8, pp. 234, 248. freeman, Worcester; Add. Ch. 73773. recorder, Droitwich 1696. HP Commons 1690–1715, ii. 709.

Col. regt. of horse 1685, 1689. Childs, The Army, James II, and the Glorious Revolution, 31.

Gov. Charterhouse 1689. G.S. Davies, Charterhouse in London, app. D. 354–5.

Parlimentarian

TALBOT, Charles (1660-1718)

Associated with: Grafton, Worcs.; Heythrop, Oxon.; Eyford, Glos.; Warwick Street, Westminster and St James’ Square, Westminster.Dasent, Hist. of St James’ Square, app. A.;

Likenesses

oil on canvas, aft. Sir G. Kneller, c.1685, NPG 1424; mezzotint by J. Smith, 1695, NPG D40716.

Author

Eagles, Robin

Volume

Lords 1660-1715

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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