Charles John Chetwynd-Talbot, 19th Earl of Shrewsbury, 19th Earl of Waterford, 4th Earl Talbot, PC (13 April 1830 – 11 May 1877), styled Viscount Ingestre between 1849 and 1868, was a British

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politician. He served as

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under

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between 1875 and 1877.

Early life

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Career

On 22 May 1849, he was commissioned a

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in the Staffordshire Yeomanry. He purchased a commission as

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& sub-lieutenant in the

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on 17 January 1851. Ingestre was promoted to a

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in the Yeomanry on 25 March 1851, and purchased a lieutenancy in the Life Guards on 5 August 1853. He resigned his Life Guards commission in late 1854, but remained in the Staffordshire Yeomanry, in which he was promoted to

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on 13 July 1864. On 1 November 1856, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Staffordshire.

Political career

Ingestre entered the

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as one of two representatives for

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in 1857, a seat he held until 1859,Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, and later represented Staffordshire North from 1859 to 1865. On 13 July 1864, he was promoted to major in the Staffordshire Yeomanry. He represented Stamford in 1868. The latter year he succeeded his father in the earldom. He resigned his Yeomanry commission on 14 April 1875, and served from 1875 to 1877 as

in the second Conservative administration of

and was sworn of the Privy Council in 1874.

Personal life

Lord Shrewsbury married Anna Theresa Cockerell (1836–1912), daughter o
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; she married William Duncombe, Viscount Helmsley, and was the mother of the second Earl of Feversham. * Charles Henry John Chetwynd-Talbot, 20th Earl of Shrewsbury (1860–1921), who eloped with Ellen Palmer-Morewood Mundy in 1882. Shrewsbury died suddenly in May 1877, aged only 47, and was succeeded in the earldom by his only legitimate son

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. The Countess of Shrewsbury died in July 1912, aged 76. Lord Shrewsbury also had an illegitimate child with a maid, producing a son. The son was educated through funding from Lord Shrewsbury. Lord Shrewsbury's illegitimate grandson Arthur Talbot won the Croix de Guerre during the First World War, saving a Padre from behind enemy lines, despite only being a medic.

Ancestry

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