Theresa Susey Helen Talbot, Later Marchioness of Londonderry and Charles Henry John, Viscount Ingestre (1860–1921)

Charles John Chetwynd-Talbot, 19th Earl of Shrewsbury, 19th Earl of Waterford, 4th Earl Talbot, PC (13 April 1830 – 11 May 1877), styled Viscount of 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.

Background

Chetwynd-Talbot was the eldest son of Admiral

Henry Chetwynd-Talbot, 18th Earl of Shrewsbury Henry John Chetwynd-Talbot, 18th Earl of Shrewsbury, 18th Earl of Waterford, 3rd Earl Talbot, CB, PC (8 November 1803 – 4 June 1868), styled Viscount of Ingestre between 1826 and 1849 and known as The Earl Talbot between 1849 and 1858, was a ...

, and his wife Lady Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of

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.thepeerage.com Charles John Chetwynd Chetwynd-Talbot, 19th Earl of Shrewsbury
/ref> On 22 May 1849, he was commissioned a lieutenant in the Staffordshire Yeomanry. He purchased a commission as cornet and sub-lieutenant in the 1st Regiment of Life Guards on 17 January 1851. Ingestre was promoted to a captaincy 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. 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

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in 1874.

Family

Lord Shrewsbury married Anna Theresa Cockerell (1836–1912), daughter o
Captain Richard Howe Cockerell RN
(d 1839 Calcutta)Richard was younger son of the architect

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(1753-1827) himself brother of

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for whom he designed

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. Richard was a younger brother of architect and travel writer Charles Robert Cockerell (1788–1863) by his wife Theresa Newcomen, later Lady Eglinton, in 1855. The new Lady Shrewsbury was stepdaughter to the 13th Earl, and half-sister to the 14th and 15th Earls. They had four children - Lady Theresa Susey Helen, Lady Guendolen Theresa, Lady Muriel Frances Louisa, and Charles, 20th Earl. Their elder daughter Lady Theresa married the 6th Marquess of Londonderry, and was the mother of the 7th Marquess. A younger daughter, Lady Muriel, married

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, and was the mother of the second Earl of Feversham. She was also active in the

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. 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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