John Hyacinth Talbot Explained

John Hyacinth Talbot
Office:Member of Parliament
for
Term Start:7 August 1847
Term End:15 July 1852
Predecessor:Robert Gore
Successor:Charles Gavan Duffy
Term Start2:10 December 1832
Term End2:6 July 1841
Predecessor2:William Wigram
Successor2:Robert Gore
Birth Date:1794
Nationality:Irish
Party:Repeal Association

John Hyacinth Talbot (1794 – 30 April 1868) of Ballytrent, County Wexford [1] was an Irish Repeal Association politician.[2]

He was the son of Matthew Talbot of Ballynamony, County Wexford and Jane, Countess d'Arcy and educated at Stonyhurst College, Lancashire.[2]

Talbot was first elected Repeal Association MP for at the 1832 general election and held the seat until 1841, when he did not seek re-election. He sat again for the seat from 1847 to 1852 when, again, he did not seek re-election.[2] [3] He was selected as High Sheriff of Wexford for 1855.[4]

He was a member of the Reform Club.[2]

He married twice. In 1822, he married Anne Eliza Redmond, daughter of Walter Redmond of Wexford, a banker.[5] In 1851 he married Eliza, daughter of Sir John Power, Bt, with whom he had a son and heir, also John Hyacinth Talbot, born in 1851.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Rayment . Leigh . The House of Commons: Constituencies beginning with "N" . Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page . 25 August 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20180903033741/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Mcommons2.htm. 3 September 2018 . usurped . 13 June 2017 .
  2. Web site: John Talbot . Members of Parliament after 1832 . The History of Parliament . 25 August 2019.
  3. Book: Walker. B.M.. Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922. 1978. Royal Irish Academy. Dublin. 0901714127.
  4. Book: The county families of the United Kingdom. 625.
  5. Web site: Redmond, Anne Eliza . Members of Parliament after 1832 . The History of Parliament . 25 August 2019.