Lancelot Blackburne
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Lancelot Blackburne was an English clergyman, who became Archbishop of York, and – in popular belief – a pirate.
Archbishop Blackburne (attr. Joseph Highmore)
William Talbot (bishop)
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William Talbot was an English Anglican bishop. He was Bishop of Oxford from 1699 to 1715, Bishop of Salisbury from 1715 to 1721 and Bishop of Durham from 1721 to 1730.
Lancelot Blackburne
…20 (equivalent to £3,691 in 2025) by Charles II for "secret services". He returned to England in 1684, marrying Catherine Talbot (the elder sister of William Talbot) on 2 September at the Savoy Chapel, and shortly thereafter took up the first of a set of church posts. In 1691 he became a Canon of Exeter, and in…
Portrait by Godfrey Kneller, 1718