Talbot Badger (born c. 1621) was an English politician who sat in the

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in 1654. Badger was the son of John Badger of The Pool House,

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. In the 16th century The Pool House and its lands was held by the Badger family of the lords of the manor of Hanley Castle. He matriculated at

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on 5 April 1639, aged 17. 'Alumni Oxonienses, 1500–1714: Baal-Barrow', Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714: Abannan-Kyte (1891), pp. 51–78. Retrieved 5 November 2011
/ref> In 1654, he was elected

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for

in the

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. He was appointed an assessment commissioner in 1656. It was said of Badger that "By his holy and humble life he exercised much influence for good on his neighbours".W. R. Williams
''The Parliamentary History of the County of Worcester''
/ref> Badger had a daughter Jane who married Anthony Young, of Hanley, to whom she brought The Pool House. Badger may have been a close relation of Roland Badger of Hanley Castle (parish), who complained in 1655 of his "sequestration for Recusancy on a bare suspicion, having lived quietly all the late troubles."

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Badger, Talbot 1621 births Year of death unknown English MPs 1654–1655 Year of birth uncertain Alumni of Lincoln College, Oxford Members of the Parliament of England for Worcestershire