Neville Talbot
Bishop of Southwell | |
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Orders | |
Ordination | 1909 |
Consecration | 1920 |
Personal details | |
Born | 21 August 1879 |
Died | 3 April 1943 | (aged 63)
Neville Stuart Talbot
Family
He was the third child and second son of his parents. His father,
Neville had two brothers, the elder of whom, Edward, was to join the Community of the Resurrection, and the younger, Gilbert, was to be killed in action in the Ypres Salient in 1915. Of his sisters, Mary married Lionel Ford, the Headmaster of Repton and Harrow and later Dean of York, while Lavinia was after his wife's death to keep house for him and bring up his children.
Schooling
When Neville was nine his family moved to Leeds. Neville attended the Grammar School, and then was at Haileybury from 1892 to 1899.
Military service
He joined the Army in 1898,[3] just in time for the Boer War. Military life had an attraction for certain sides of Neville's character. It appealed to a certain simplicity in him and the need for courage. Neville was inclined to go straight at things, without weighing the risk. He blurted out untimely truths. The discipline of the Army did not affect him much. The Boer War was not a very good school for that. Much of it was like a shooting party, and the hazardous self-exposure in the clear air of the veldt remained his first taste of danger.[citation needed]
Education
Neville went up to Christ Church, Oxford, in October 1903. While at Oxford, he played one first-class cricket match for Oxford University as a lower-order batsman and opening bowler.[4] In the winter of 1907 he went to Cuddesdon for his ordination training.[citation needed]
Clerical career
Talbot was made deacon at
In April 1918 he was married to Cecil Mary Eastwood by his father at West Stoke Church, near Chichester.[citation needed]
Pretoria
On 12 April 1920 he was elected
In 1930 he refused the appointment as
Nottingham
He was appointed to
He arrived snuffing like a great war-horse, longing for the battle; determined to bring Nottingham to the feet of Christ. He was not a little handicapped by the fact that he came just when the migration from the city began, with the result that the old-fashioned kind of worshippers had largely moved into the country. This handicap was late accentuated during the war by the difficulties of transport. His congregation did not increase as he had hoped.[original research?]
The parish was largely non-residential, and the church was surrounded by factories and offices which Neville used to visit carrying handbills announcing the special dinner-hour service.[citation needed]
Neville was in excellent relations with the non-Anglican religious bodies in Nottingham.[
In May 1941, Neville wrote from Nottingham :[citation needed]
We had a visitation – nothing compared with some places, but still a very real taste. Began about twelve. We had gone to bed, and tried to believe that the explosions were our guns, but soon one and then another were unmistakable – one was not far off down Friar's Lane. Peering out of the top window, I soon realised that big fires had been started, so, there being a lull, I went down. I found a fire going in the South Transept of the Church. It took a long time really to put it out.
Neville was often restless within the conditions of his restriction in his parish at Nottingham – restrictions greatly increased by the war. He likened himself to "an old hulk stranded on a lee-shore". His fearless honesty made him accuse himself of ambition, but, if it was there, it did not lurk in any secret corner. In March 1939 he was offered the position of Bishop of Croydon. He would have been Suffragan and Archdeacon as well as Vicar. His first feeling was that he must accept. He felt that nine years in Nottingham were enough, and that "the call came from the Church and not from Downing Street." However, after inspecting conditions on the spot, he decided against.[original research?]
With the coming of the war, there seemed to open out at last the chance for work that suited his gifts. It arose out of his interest in the
He retired to Sussex for convalescence where he died. He was buried at All Hallows Barking, the religious headquarters of Toc H.[citation needed]
References
- ^ "Obituary: Bishop Neville Talbot". The Times. No. 49512. London. 5 April 1943. p. 6.
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- ^ "No. 26974". The London Gazette. 3 June 1898. p. 3448.
- ^ "Player Profile: Neville Talbot". CricketArchive. Retrieved 28 April 2013.
- ^ Malden Richard (ed) (1920). Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1920 (51st edn). London: The Field Press. p. 1216.
- ^ "No. 28884". The London Gazette (Supplement). 28 August 1914. p. 6881.
- ^ "The Archbishopric of Capetown". Lancashire Evening Post. 20 September 1930. p. 6 col F. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
External links
- Portraits of Neville Stuart Talbot at the National Portrait Gallery, London
- Bibliographic directory from Project Canterbury
- Works by Neville Stuart Talbot at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Neville Talbot at Internet Archive
- "Talbot, Neville Stuart". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)