Charles Talbot (Royal Navy officer)

Sir Charles Talbot
Born	1 November 1801
Died	8 August 1876 (1876-08-09) (aged 74)
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service / branch	Royal Navy
Rank	Admiral
Commands	HMS Warspite HMS Vestal HMS Maeander HMS Algiers Queenstown Nore Command
Awards	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.

Naval career

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, Down Ampney, Gloucestershire in appreciation after his ship survived a storm off Sebastopol in 1854.[3]

He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in 1862.[2]

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. 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 Henry Chads	Commander-in-Chief, Queenstown 1858–1862	Succeeded by Sir Lewis Jones
Preceded by Sir George Lambert	Commander-in-Chief, The Nore 1864–1866	Succeeded by Sir Baldwin Walker