Charles Talbot (Royal Navy officer)

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Sir Charles Talbot
Born1 November 1801
Died8 August 1876 (1876-08-09) (aged 74)
Allegiance
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath

Admiral Sir Charles Talbot KCB (1 November 1801 – 8 August 1876) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, The Nore.

Talbot was the second son of the Rev. Charles Talbot, and Lady Elizabeth Somerset, daughter of Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort.[1] He joined the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1815.[2] Promoted to captain in 1830, he commanded HMS Warspite, HMS Vestal, HMS Maeander and then HMS Algiers.[2] He was appointed Commander-in-chief, Queenstown in 1858 and Commander-in-Chief, The Nore in 1864.[2]

He presented a stained glass window to All Saints Church,

Sebastopol in 1854.[3]

He was appointed a

There is a memorial window to him and his wife in the church of St. John the Baptist in Biggleswade.[4]

Family

In 1838 he married Hon. Charlotte Georgiana Ponsonby; they had three sons and four daughters.[5]

See also

  • O'Byrne, William Richard (1849). "Talbot, Charles" . A Naval Biographical Dictionary . John Murray – via Wikisource.

References

  1. ^ Edmund Lodge (1843). The Peerage of the British Empire as at Present Existing: Arranged and Printed from the Personal Communications of the Nobility. Saunders and Otley. p. 514.
  2. ^ a b c d William Loney RN
  3. ^ "Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, All Saints Church". Britain Express. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
  4. ^ Biggleswade: historical and genealogical information at GENUKI.
  5. ^ "Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Talbot". The Peerage. 31 January 2005.
Military offices
Preceded by Commander-in-Chief, Queenstown
1858–1862
Succeeded by
Preceded by Commander-in-Chief, The Nore
1864–1866
Succeeded by