George Talbot (papal chamberlain)
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George Talbot (1816–1886) was an Anglo-Irish cleric of the Church of England, who as a Roman Catholic convert became a papal chamberlain.[1][2]
He was a younger son of James Talbot, 3rd Baron Talbot of Malahide, a British intelligence chief of the French Revolutionary Wars period, and his wife Anne Sarah Rodbard, daughter of Samuel Rodbard of Evercreech, Somerset.[3][4] He was educated at Eton College, where he was a pupil by 1829.[5]
Talbot matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford in 1834. He graduated B.A. at St Mary Hall in 1839, and took up the position of vicar of Evercreech in 1840. He graduated M.A. in 1841.[2]
On 10 July 1843, at St Mary's College, Oscott, Talbot was received into the Catholic Church by Nicholas Wiseman.[1][6] He trained for the Catholic priesthood at Oscott, with Edward Henry Howard and Edmund Stonor, lifelong friends. He was ordained priest by Wiseman in 1846.[1] He is listed as an early Tractarian (Oxford Movement) convert, as someone familiar with the movement leaders at Oxford, or knowing their works.[7] In 1847 he was rebuffed by John Henry Newman, when he offered to join Newman's proposed English branch of the Congregation of Oratorians.[8] In the period 1848–9 he worked as a priest at St George's, Southwark.[1]