John Talbot, 16th Earl of Shrewsbury

Roman Catholic layman and patron of the Gothic revival.

May have been a relative of Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 2nd Earl Talbot, who was ‘awarded the compensation for Worthy Park in St John and Mickleton Pen in St Thomas-in-the-Vale Jamaica as executor and trustee of his wife’s brother-in-law Sir Rose Price (q.v.) with co-trustees including his son the Hon John Chetwynd-Talbot (q.v.)’. (UCL Department of History, ‘Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 2nd Earl Talbot’, in UCL Department of History (ed.), Legacies of British Slave-ownership [online], London 2020, <https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/20032> accessed 5 August 2021.)

Known as ‘Good Earl John’ for his charity.

Previous owner: NG purchased in 1857: NG291.

History of Parliament Trust (ed.), The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History, London 1964-, https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/
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E. B. Stuart and G. M. Murphy, 'Talbot, John, sixteenth earl of Shrewsbury and sixteenth earl of Waterford', in C. Matthew et al. (eds), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford 1992-, https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/38048
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UCL Department of History (ed.), Legacies of British Slave-ownership, London 2020, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/
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A. Wedgwood, 'Talbot family (3) John Talbot, 16th Earl of Shrewsbury', in J. Turner et al. (eds), Grove Art Online, Oxford 1998-, https://doi.org/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T083136
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