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.
Portrait by Godfrey Kneller, 1718
Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury was a British Whig statesman who was part of the Immortal Seven group that invited William of Orange to depose King James II of England during the Glorious Revol
William Talbot (bishop)
…October 1677, and M.A. on 23 June 1680. Talbot's first preferment was the rectory of Burghfield, Berkshire (1682), a living in the gift of his kinsman, Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury. The deanery of Worcester was vacant after the deprivation of George Hickes as a nonjuror, and Shrewsbury's interest secured the appointment of Talbot…
Portrait by Sir Godfrey Kneller, c. 1699–1700
Shrewsbury in the robes of the Order of the Garter, holding his staff of office as Lord Chamberlain, a post he held 1699-1700 for William III and again 1710-1715 for Anne and for George I.
Adelhida Paleotti became Charles Talbot's wife in 1705.