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 Ingestre between 1826 and 1849 and known as the Earl Talbot between 1849 and 1858, was a British naval commander and

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politician.

Background

Shrewsbury was the second but eldest surviving 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 an English politician and peer. He served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland between 1817 ...

, by his marriage to Frances Thomasine, a daughter of Charles Lambart. He was styled Viscount Ingestre from the death of his elder brother in 1826 and succeeded his father as 3rd Earl Talbot in 1849. In 1860, following a long and expensive legal case in the

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, and against the claims of three others ( Lord Edmund Howard Talbot, infant son of the 14th Duke of Norfolk by whom he was represented, Princess Doria Pamphili (daughter of John, 16th Earl) and Major William Talbot (of Castle Talbot, County Wexford, a descendant of William, 4th Earl), he succeeded to the titles and estates (including

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) of a distant cousin and became 18th

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and 18th Earl of Waterford.

Military career

Talbot (as he then was) entered the

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in 1817. He commanded at the

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, and was picked by Vice-Admiral Codrington to bring home the despatches announcing the victory. He was soon after promoted to

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. On 9 March 1831, his father, the

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, commissioned him a

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in the

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, which he gave up in 1833. On 2 June 1832 his father appointed him Lieutenant-Colonel of the King's Own Staffordshire Militia, which he resigned in early 1846. He was promoted a

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in 1854 and a

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and

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in 1865. As Viscount Ingestre, while serving in the House of Commons, he was a leading supporter of the charlatan naval inventor Samuel Alfred Warner.

Political career

Ingestre was returned to Parliament as one of two representatives for

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in 1830. In May of the following year he was elected for Armagh City, a seat he only held until August 1831, and then represented Dublin City until 1832. In 1832 he was once again returned for Hertford. However, the election was declared void on petition in 1833. He returned to the

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as one of the two representatives for Staffordshire South in 1837, a seat he held until he succeeded his father in the Talbot earldom in 1849. After entering the

he served under the

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as a

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(government whip in the House of Lords) in 1852 and as

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from 1858 to 1859. In 1858 he was sworn of the Privy Council.

Family

In 1828, while Lord Ingestre, he married Lady Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of

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, by his marriage to Sarah Carpenter. They had four sons and four daughters: * Charles John Chetwynd-Talbot, 19th Earl of Shrewsbury (13 Apr 1830 - 11 May 1877) *Lady Victoria Susan Chetwynd-Talbot (27 Feb 1831 - 8 June 1856). Died unmarried. * Admiral Walter Cecil Carpenter (27 March 1834 - 13 May 1904) *Lady Constance Harriet Mahonesa Chetwynd-Talbot (15 June 1836 - 10 Oct 1901) married William Kerr, 8th Marquess of Lothian. They had no children. *Lady Gertrude Frances Chetwynd-Talbot (21 Mar 1840 - 30 Sep 1906) married

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. They had no children. * Sir Reginald Arthur James Chetwynd-Talbot (11 July 1841 - 15 Jan 1929) *Lady Adelaide Chetwynd-Talbot (8 July 1844 - 16 Mar 1917) married

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, in 1868. They had no children. *Alfred Chetwynd-Talbot (14 Sep 1848 - 9 May 1913) married Emily Augusta Louisa de Grey, daughter of Thomas de Grey, 5th Baron Walsingham. They had three sons and two daughters. Lord Shrewsbury died in June 1868, aged 64, and was succeeded in his titles by his eldest son Charles. The Countess of Shrewsbury survived her husband by sixteen years and died in October 1884, aged 76.

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