Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot, was a British lawyer and Whig politician. He was Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain from 1733 to 1737.
Portrait by John Vanderbank
Lord Talbot by Gerhard Bockman.
The tomb of Cecil Talbot, née Matthew.
Retuched Painting of Robert Walpole
Yorke–Talbot slavery opinion
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The Yorke–Talbot slavery opinion was a legal opinion issued by two Crown law officers in 1729 relating to the legality of slavery under English law.
Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot
…assumed derived from the Hensol estate in Pendoylan, Glamorgan, which came to him through his wife. Talbot is remembered as one of the authors of the Yorke–Talbot slavery opinion, as a crown law officer in 1729. The opinion was sought to determinate the legality of slavery; Talbot and Philip Yorke opined that it was legal. The…
Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke by William Hoare of Bath