Tailboys or Talboys was the name of a prominent gentry family from Lincolnshire, England. People of this surname include: *

Ivo Taillebois Ivo Taillebois (died 1094) was a powerful Norman nobleman, sheriff and tenant-in-chief in 11th-century England. Life Ivo Taillebois was a Norman most probably from Taillebois, now a small hamlet in Saint-Gervais de Briouze, Calvados.K.S.B. Keats ...

(d. 1094), Norman landholder in Lincolnshire and sheriff *

Brian Talboys Sir Brian Edward Talboys (7 June 1921 – 3 June 2012) was a New Zealand politician who served as the seventh deputy prime minister of New Zealand for the first two terms of Robert Muldoon's premiership. If the abortive " Colonels' Coup" a ...

(1921–2012), New Zealand politician *

Elizabeth Blount Elizabeth Blount (// – 1540), commonly known during her lifetime as Bessie Blount, was a mistress of Henry VIII of England. Early life Blount was the daughter of Sir John Blount and Catherine Pershall, of Kinlet, Bridgnorth, Shropshire. Si ...

(d. 1539/40), also known as Bessie Blount, who became Baroness Tailboys on her marriage *

Elizabeth Tailboys, 4th Baroness Tailboys of Kyme Elizabeth Tailboys, 4th Baroness Tailboys of Kyme () was the daughter of Elizabeth Blount and Gilbert Tailboys, 1st Baron Tailboys of Kyme, and the second wife of Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick. Through her mother she was a half-sister of ...

(c.1520–1563) *

George Tailboys, 2nd Baron Tailboys of Kyme George Tailboys (c. 1523 – c. 6 September 1540) was the eldest son of Elizabeth Blount and Gilbert Tailboys, 1st Baron Tailboys of Kyme. Through his mother he was the half brother of Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset, who was th ...

(c.1523–1540) * Gilbert Tailboys (c.1497/8–1530), 1st Baron Tailboys of Kyme, husband of Elizabeth Blount * Graeme K. Talboys (b. 1953), English writer * Keith Talboys (b. 1931), English cricketer *

Robert Tailboys, 3rd Baron Tailboys of Kyme Robert Tailboys (c. 1528 – c. 26 June 1542) was a younger son of Elizabeth Blount and Gilbert Tailboys, 1st Baron Tailboys of Kyme. Through his mother he was the half brother of Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset, who was the onl ...

(c.1528–1542) * Steve Talboys (1966–2019), English footballer *Sir

William Tailboys William Tailboys, de jure 7th Baron Kyme (c.1416 – 26 May 1464) was a wealthy Lincolnshire squire and adherent of the Lancastrian cause during the Wars of the Roses. He was born in Kyme, Lincolnshire, the son of Sir Walter Tailboys and his ...

(c.1415–1464), 7th Baron Tailboys of Kyme, Lincolnshire squire

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* "''Talboys''", the fictional country home of

Lord Peter Wimsey Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey (later 17th Duke of Denver) is the fictional protagonist in a series of detective novels and short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers (and their continuation by Jill Paton Walsh). A dilettante who solves mysteries for ...

and his wife Harriet

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