Patrick Talbot
Colonel Sir Wellington Patrick Manvers Chetwynd-Talbot KCB (12 December 1817 – 23 September 1898) was a British Army officer who served as Serjeant at Arms of the House of Lords.
Biography
[edit]Chetwynd-Talbot was the son of Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 2nd Earl Talbot and Frances Thomasine Lambart. He was educated at Eton College and Sandhurst[clarification needed], and was commissioned an ensign in the 35th (Royal Sussex) Regiment of Foot on 19 December 1836. He purchased a lieutenancy in the 7th Regiment of Foot on 15 September 1837.[1] On 29 March 1842, he purchased a captaincy in the regiment.[2] From 1844 to 1845, he was comptroller of the household to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Lord Heytesbury.
His father, then Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire, commissioned him a major in the King's Own (1st Staffordshire) Militia on 4 April 1846.[3] Chetwynd-Talbot was promoted to lieutenant-colonel on 4 March 1853.[4] He was private secretary to his future father-in-law, Lord Derby, while the latter was prime minister in 1852. He commanded the regiment when it was embodied for garrison duty in the Ionian Islands during the Crimean War.[5]
He served as Serjeant at Arms of the House of Lords between 1858 and his death in 1898.[6] He was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in the 1897 New Year Honours.[7][8] On 26 April 1873, he resigned his commission as lieutenant-colonel and was appointed honorary colonel of the militia regiment.[9]
On 11 October 1860 he married Lady Emma Charlotte Stanley, daughter of Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby and Hon. Emma Bootle-Wilbraham. Together they had eight children.
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References
[edit]- ^ "No. 19541". The London Gazette. 15 September 1837. p. 2426.
- ^ "No. 20086". The London Gazette. 29 March 1842. p. 902.
- ^ "No. 20594". The London Gazette. 14 April 1846. p. 1358.
- ^ "No. 21419". The London Gazette. 8 March 1853. p. 710.
- ^ "Historical Records of the 1st King's Own Stafford Militia: Now 3rd and 4th Battalions, South Staffordshire Regiment". 1902.
- ^ "No. 22210". The London Gazette. 17 December 1858. p. 5441.
- ^ "No. 26810". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 1897. p. 65.
- ^ William Arthur Shaw, The Knights of England (Genealogical Publishing Com, 1971), p.295. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
- ^ "No. 23970". The London Gazette. 25 April 1873. p. 2085.
