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11 unusual facts about Talbot


Alton Towers railway station

It was used by the Earl of Shrewsbury who had a luggage lift installed to hoist his baggage up to Alton Towers, his gothic revival residence which is situated at the top of nearby Bunbury Hill.

Bonnie Fagan

In 1987 her family moved to Talbot, Victoria, where Fagan was educated at Talbot Primary School, and Maryborough High School.

Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 20th Earl of Shrewsbury

Under his patronage, Clément Talbot Ltd was founded in 1903 to import the popular French Clément car into Britain.

Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 22nd Earl of Shrewsbury

Lord Shrewsbury sits in the House of Lords as one of the remaining 'elected' Hereditary Peers in Parliament and takes the Conservative Whip.

Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 2nd Earl Talbot

Although an opponent of Catholic emancipation, Daniel O'Connell gave Talbot credit for his impartiality and Lord Cloncurry called him 'an honourable, high-minded gentleman'.

Clément-Talbot

By 1903 a Clément-Talbot Type CT4K 18hp four cylinder was described as 'Coachwork by J.Rothschild et Fils, Paris' who had traded as Clément-Rothschild in 1902, coach-building on Panhard-Levassor chassis.

John Kerr, 7th Marquess of Lothian

Lord Lothian married Lady Cecil Chetwynd-Talbot, daughter of Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 2nd Earl Talbot, in 1831.

Talbot

Founded in 1903, this business venture was financed by Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 20th Earl of Shrewsbury and Adolphe Clément-Bayard.

Talbot was originally the British marque used to sell imported French Clément-Bayard cars.

Talbot was the main sponsor of Coventry City football club from 1981 to 1983, and at one stage the club's chairman Jimmy Hill was planning to change the club's name to "Coventry Talbot".

The rally was a big success for Talbot as the team also took the third and fourth places, driven by Fréquelin and Russell Brookes, respectively.


Abbot's Chair

In 1433 the monks leased all of Glossopdale to the Talbot family, later Earls of Shrewsbury.

Aberavon RFC

One theory of the nickname 'The Wizards' is thought to have been based on the many workers who came to Port Talbot in the 19th century from the Carmarthen area, strongly associated with the legendary wizard Merlin.

Anne Hastings

Anne Hastings, Countess of Shrewsbury, (c.1471–1520), wife of George Talbot, 4th Earl of Shrewsbury

Captain Paul Montford

When Jenny Williams and Bela the gypsy were found dead in the woods, with Talbot's silver-headed cane nearby, Montford came to suspect his old friend, not believing his wild story about a wolf biting him.

Caus Castle

On 10 Aug. 1443, at Caus Castle Sir Gruffudd Vychan pierced with a lance the heart of his master, Sir Christopher Talbot (1419–1443), son of John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, and the champion tilter of England.

Centre for Kentish Studies

Besides holding the usual local authority archives and ecclesiastical parish registers, the numerous other major collections include political and estate papers of the Earls of Guildford, the Stanhope of Chevening papers, and papers of the Talbot and Stuart-Wortley families.

Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore

Unfortunately Talbot proved to be a poor choice, stabbing to death a Royal customs official on board his ship in the Patuxent River, and thereby ensuring that his uncle suffered immediate difficulties on his return to London.

Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot

Talbot is also remembered as one of the two authors of the Yorke–Talbot slavery opinion whilst he was a crown law officer in 1729.

Charlotte Montagu Douglas Scott, Duchess of Buccleuch

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Married secondly Bertram Chetwynd-Talbot on 21 February 1903 in Westminster with no issue.

Dewsbury by-election, 1902

It was reported that a number of local worthies were in line for consideration including Mr E Talbot, a member of the local school board, Alderman J Anty of Batley (described as an extreme teetotaler), Mr G Thorpe a director of the Cooperative Wholesale Society, Mr J Brown a chemical manufacturer from Savile Town and Mr W Wilson JP, a card manufacturer from Mirfield.

Don Talbot

Other notable Australian swimmers who were coached or greatly assisted by Talbot in the 1960s and 1970s included – Ian O'Brien, Bob Windle, Kevin Berry, Beverley Whitfield and Gail Neall.

Edward Talbot

Edward Kelley (1555–1597), also known as Edward Talbot, notorious English criminal and medium

Edward Woodville, Lord Scales

In 1988 a monument was erected by Breton nationalists at the site of the battle, which commemorates the English forces, but erroneously refers to their leader as "Talbot Earl of Scales".

Fear Is the Key

The protagonist, Talbot, was played by Barry Newman, and the millionaire's daughter Sarah Ruthven by Suzy Kendall.

Francis Talbot

Francis Talbot, 5th Earl of Shrewsbury (1500 – 1560), son of George Talbot, 4th Earl of Shrewsbury and Anne Hastings

Gail Neall

After the European trip, Neall went to Thunder Bay in Canada to train with Talbot for three months.

George Biddlecombe

When attached to the Talbot, 1838–42, he surveyed numerous anchorages on the Ionian station, in the Archipelago, and up the Dardanelles and Bosphorus; examined the south shore of the Black Sea as far as Trabzon, as well as the port of Varna, and prepared a survey, published by the admiralty, of the bays and banks of Akko.

George S. Talbot

George Thomas Surtees Talbot (1875 – 1918) was an English composer and writer.

Gerald Talbot

Much of Talbot's family came from Harlem, Maine, which was incorporated in 1818 as the town of China.

Hake Talbot

Hake Talbot was an American writer chiefly known for his impossible crime mystery novel Rim of the Pit (1944).

Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Monument

Legislation has been proposed to create Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park to encompass the monument and other properties in Dorchester, Talbot and Caroline counties, as well as Harriet Tubman National Historical Park at several Tubman-related places in Auburn, New York.

John Iltyd Nicholl

Nicholl was married to Jane Harriet in 1841, daughter of Thomas Mansel Talbot and brother of Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot.

John Nevison

The robbers used safe houses at Tuxford and Wentbridge and divided their spoils at the Talbot Inn at Newark.

Layton Cemetery

Layton Cemetery contains the graves of 139 Commonwealth service personnel of World War I and 39 of World War II, besides, from the latter war, 26 airmen of the Polish Air Force (whose headquarters in exile were in Talbot Square in the town), and one airman of the Royal Yugoslav Air Force.

Lionel Ford

Ford married in 1904 Mary Catherine Talbot, daughter of Edward Stuart Talbot, who was successively Bishop of Rochester, Southwark and Winchester.

Margam Stones Museum

The remainder of the Abbey buildings,including the Chapter house, with its memorials to the Cistercian Abbots, became part of the estate of the Mansel and then Talbot families, and are now part of Margam public park.

Matt Talbot

On 3 October 1975 Pope Paul VI declared him to be Venerable Matt Talbot, which is a step on the road to his canonisation, a process which needs evidence of a physical miracle in order to be successful.

Maxime Talbot

Following her retirement from competitive skating in 2012, she moved to Philadelphia to live with Talbot and work at Isabelle Brasseur's skating school.

Talbot is engaged to former Canadian figure skating champion Cynthia Phaneuf.

Nita Talbot

Talbot was a leading lady who spent the first decade or so of her career playing "slick chicks" and sharp-witted career girls, but is perhaps best known for her role as Marya, the "White Russian" spy in the 1960s sitcom Hogan's Heroes, as well as Sheila Fine in the sitcom Soap.

Order of Owls

After being attacked by the Catholic weekly Newark Monitor in 1907, Supreme President Talbot replied that the order was founded by "sober men of Catholic education" and reported that 4 of its supreme officers were Catholics, 2 others were married to Catholics in the church and four out of seven of the trustees were Catholics.

Patrick Keohane

Served with Edward "Teddy" Evans on HMS Talbot.

Philippe Étancelin

For 1939, he put his Talbot third at Pau, following Hermann Lang and Manfred von Brauchitsch home.

PSA Peugeot Citroën

A number of marques were inherited following the acquisition of Chrysler Europe in 1978, and some were merged to re-establish Talbot, a previously dormant marque.

Rhys Gryg

These arms were inherited by the Talbot family, later Earls of Shrewsbury

Sam Talbot

Following the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, Talbot worked with Beastie Boy Mike D to run a food truck delivering over 20,000 meals to people affected by the storm's devastation.

Taibach

The parish church was built in 1901 by Miss Emily Talbot in honour of Saint Theodore of Tarsus, and in remembrance of her late brother of the same name.

Talbot effect

The Talbot effect is a near-field diffraction effect first observed in 1836 by Henry Fox Talbot.

Talbot Samba

As with previous Talbot and Chrysler Europe models, styling of the T15 was the responsibility of the British design centre in Whitley, Coventry.

Talbot Trail Public School

Built in 2005 to ease overcrowding at neighbouring elementary schools, Talbot Trail is known for being the first of several planned "themed" schools to be built in Ontario, and the school's theme of exploration led it to be honoured as one of the Top 25 Schools in Canada by a 2007 edition of Today's Parent magazine.

Uí Maine

Edward Kelley, also known as Edward Talbot (11 August 1555 – 1 November 1597), Tudor occultist and self-declared spirit medium who worked with John Dee.

Virginia, County Cavan

Playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan was Thomas's grandson, while othor reputable Virginian's from the nineteenth century were Thomas Fitzpatrick a noted London physician, and entrepreneur Joseph Rathborne the son of local mill owner Henry Talbot Rathborne, Joseph went to America and created the world's biggest lumber mill with the Rathborne Cypress Lumber Company in Louisiana.

William Talbot

Talbot v. Janson, the Supreme Court case involving an American named William Talbot

William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot

Mary Anne Talbot claimed to be one of sixteen illegitimate children of Lord Talbot.