John Ivory-Talbot ( – October 1772), of Lacock Abbey,

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, was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1715 and 1741. Lacock Abbey from south, Wiltshire, UK - Diliff

Ivory was the eldest son of Sir John Ivory of New Ross, County Wexford and his wife Anne Talbot, eldest daughter and coheiress of Sir John Talbot, MP of Lacock Abbey. His father died when he was an infant in 1695. He matriculated at

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on 23 April 1707. In 1714, he succeeded to the Wiltshire estates of his grandfather, Sir John Talbot, and assumed the additional name of Talbot. On 1 July 1716England, Select Marriages, 1538-1973 he married Mary Mansel, the daughter of

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, MP. Ivory-Talbot was elected Tory

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(MP) for Ludgershall at the

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and voted consistently against the Government. He did not stand in

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. At the 1727 general election he was returned unopposed as MP for

. He was returned unopposed again at the 1734 general election and made his only known speech on 3 May 1736, against the Quakers title bill. In 1735, his nephew

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's mother Lady Mansel objected to Ivory-Talbot being made his sole guardian on the grounds that he was driven to drink because his wife was mad. He did not stand for Parliament in

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. Ivory-Talbot made substantial alterations to Lacock Abbey in the Gothic Revival style in the 1750s. He died in October 1772, leaving two sons and a daughter. Lacock Abbey passed to his eldest son John.

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