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TALBOT OF HENSOL, See also:CHARLES TALBOT, 1ST See also:BARON (1685–1737) , See also:lord See also:chancellor of See also:England, was the eldest son of See also:William Talbot, See also:bishop of See also:Durham, a descendant of the 1st See also:earl of See also:Shrewsbury. He was educated at See also:Eton and See also:Oriel See also:College, See also:Oxford, and became a See also:fellow of All Souls College in 1704. He was called to the See also:bar in 1711, and in 1717 was appointed See also:solicitor-See also:general to the See also:prince of See also:Wales. Having been elected a member of the See also:House of See also:Commons in 1720, he became solicitor-general in 1726, and in 1733 he was made lord chancellor and raised to the See also:peerage with the See also:title of Baron Talbot of Hensol. Talbot proved himself an See also:equity See also:judge of exceptional capacity and of the highest See also:character during the three years of his occupancy of the See also:Wool-See also:sack. He died on the 14th of See also:February 1737. Among his contemporaries Talbot enjoyed the reputation of a wit; he was a See also:patron of the poet See also:Thomson, who in The Seasons commemorated a son of his to whom he acted as See also:tutor; and See also:Butler dedicated his famous See also:Analogy to the lord chancellor. The title assumed by Talbot was derived from Hensol in See also:Glamorganshire, which came to him through his wife. See Lord See also:Campbell, Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the See also:Great See also:Seal (8 vols. See also:London, 1845–69) ; See also:Edward See also:Foss, The See also:Judges of England ( vols. London, 1848–64) ; Lord See also:Hervey, See also:Memoirs of the Reign of See also:George II. (2 vols.

London. 1848) ; G. E. C., See also:

Complete Peerage, vol. vii. (London, 1896).

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