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Sir Wellington Patrick Manvers Chetwynd-Talbot (12 December 1817 – 23 September 1898) was a British Army officer who served as Serjeant at Arms of the
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. Chetwynd-Talbot was the son of
Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 2nd Earl Talbot Charles Chetwynd Chetwynd-Talbot, 2nd Earl Talbot, KG, PC, FRS (25 April 1777 – 10 January 1849), styled Viscount of Ingestre between 1784 and 1793, was a British politician and slave holder. He served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland betwee ...
and Frances Thomasine Lambart. He was educated at
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and Sandhurst, and was commissioned an ensign in the
35th (Royal Sussex) Regiment of Foot The 35th (Royal Sussex) Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1701. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 107th (Bengal Infantry) Regiment of Foot to form the Royal Sussex Regiment in 1881. Histo ...
on 19 December 1836. He purchased a lieutenancy in the
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on 15 September 1837. On 29 March 1842, he purchased a captaincy in the regiment. From 1844 to 1845, he was comptroller of the household to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Lord Heytesbury. His father, then
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, commissioned him a Major in the
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on 4 April 1846. Chetwynd-Talbot was promoted to
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on 4 March 1853. He was private secretary to his future father-in-law,
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, while the latter was
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in 1852. He commanded the regiment when it was embodied for garrison duty in the Ionian Islands during the
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. He served as Serjeant at Arms of the House of Lords between 1858 and his death in 1898. He was made a
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in the 1897 New Year Honours. On 26 April 1873, he resigned his commission as lieutenant-colonel and was appointed Honorary Colonel of the militia regiment. On 11 October 1860 he married Lady Emma Charlotte Stanley, daughter of
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, (29 March 1799 – 23 October 1869, known before 1834 as Edward Stanley, and from 1834 to 1851 as Lord Stanley) was a British statesman, three-time Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ...
and Hon. Emma Bootle-Wilbraham. Together they had eight children.


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