{{Short description|English Anglican bishop (1844–1934)}} {{Use British English|date=February 2018}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2018}} {{Infobox Christian leader | name = Edward Talbot | honorific-prefix = The Right Reverend | title = Bishop of Winchester | image = Edward Stuart Talbot Vanity 11 October 1911.jpg | caption = Talbot in ''Vanity Fair'' magazine, 11 October 1911 | church = Church of England | diocese = Winchester | elected = 1911 | predecessor = Herbert Ryle | successor = Theodore Woods | other_post = Bishop of Southwark<br />1905–1911<br />Bishop of Rochester<br />1895–1905 <!---------- Orders ----------> | ordination = | consecration = {{circa|1895}} <!---------- Personal details ----------> | birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1844|2|19}} | death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1934|1|30|1844|2|19}} | buried = Outside Winchester Cathedral | religion = Anglican | residence = Farnham Castle | parents = John Chetwynd-Talbot & Caroline Stuart-Wortley | spouse = Lavinia Lyttelton | children = ''see below'' | alma_mater = Christ Church, Oxford }} '''Edward Stuart Talbot''' (19 February 1844 – 30 January 1934) was an Anglican bishop in the Church of England and the first Warden of Keble College, Oxford. He was successively the Bishop of Rochester, the Bishop of Southwark and the Bishop of Winchester.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp04409/edward-stuart-talbot#comments |title=Edward Stuart Talbot |publisher=National Portrait Gallery |access-date=28 November 2017}}</ref>
When the First World War started in August 1914, it was a surprise to many including Bishop Talbot who, in January 1914, had written, "No year has opened with greater anxieties. It is true, thank God, that the black cloud which at the opening of 1912 hung over our relations with Germany, threatening war, has greatly lightened and dispersed."<ref>''Winchester Diocesan Chronicle'', January 1914</ref> He was in no doubt in August 1914 that it would be an horrific war. "It is a sober truth that in its scale, in the numbers whom it will touch, in the amount of suffering which it may cause, there has been nothing like it in the history of Europe."<ref name="ReferenceA">''Winchester Diocesan Chronicle'', September 1914</ref> He quoted the support given to Britain "by our Colonies, by the main body of American opinion, and by public feeling in Italy, all of them in a degree independent witnesses", as indicative of the righteousness of the British cause fighting "for freedom".<ref name="ReferenceA"/> He was very busy during the war, attending various meetings, encouraging women to take on war work, creating a Roll of Honour of clergy and clergy families who had volunteered for the Forces and chairing an "Enquiry into Religion in the Army".<ref>Diocesan Chronicles were published monthly with news of the bishop’s activities.</ref> He himself was a strong preacher with a resonant voice and, at well over six feet in height, he looked and sounded like an ideal bishop.<ref>''Edward Stuart Talbot'', by Gwendolyn Stephenson, SPCK, 1936, p. 223</ref>
Talbot's two elder brothers went to France in August 1914, as Temporary Chaplains to the Forces (TCF). Both were awarded the Military Cross. His youngest son, Gilbert, was killed in action. "It has pleased God that Gilbert should be taken....", he remarked.<ref>''Edward Stuart Talbot'', by Gwendolen Stephenson, SPCK, 1936, p. 204</ref>
==Education== He was educated at Charterhouse School until 1858. In 1862 he went up to Christ Church, Oxford, and graduated in 1865. He remained there until 1869 as modern history tutor.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://findingaids.library.emory.edu/documents/P-MSS310/printable/ |title=TALBOT, EDWARD STUART |publisher=Emory University |access-date=28 November 2017}}</ref>
==Career== In 1869 he was appointed first warden of Keble College, Oxford, and he stayed there until 1888 when he accepted the post of Vicar of Leeds Parish Church, where he remained for six years (1889–1895).<ref>{{cite book | last=Malden Richard (ed) | author-link= | title= Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1920 (51st edn) | location= London | publisher= The Field Press| pages=1661| year=1920 | isbn=}}</ref> While still in Oxford he and his wife Lavinia were the founders of Lady Margaret Hall, the first college for women, in 1878.<ref name=lav/><ref>In January 1933 he dedicated the college chapel. ''Alden's Oxford Guide''. Oxford: Alden & Co., 1958; pp. 120–21</ref> He then held the posts of Bishops of Rochester, of Southwark and of Winchester. He was canonically elected to the See of Winchester on 19 April 1911 at Winchester Cathedral<ref>{{Church Times | title = The See of Winchester: Election of the New Bishop | archive = 1911_04_21_523 | issue = 2517 | date = 21 April 1911 | page = 523 | accessed = 29 November 2019 }}</ref> and that election was confirmed (by which Talbot took the See) on 1 May 1911 at St Mary-le-Bow.<ref>{{Church Times | title = Church News: Personal | archive = 1911_05_05_598 | issue = 2519 | date = 5 May 1911 | page = 598 | accessed = 29 November 2019 }}</ref> Farnham Castle was the traditional home of the Bishops of Winchester.
==Family== His father was the Hon. John Chetwynd-Talbot, son of Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 2nd Earl Talbot, and his mother was Caroline Jane Stuart-Wortley, daughter of James Stuart-Wortley, 1st Baron Wharncliffe.<ref>{{Cite ODNB|title=Talbot, Edward Stuart (1844–1934), bishop of Winchester|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-36409|access-date=2020-08-12|year = 2004|language=en|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/36409}}</ref>
He married the Hon. Lavinia Lyttelton (born 10 October 1849), daughter of George Lyttelton, 4th Baron Lyttelton and Mary née Glynne, on 29 June 1870.<ref name=lav>{{Cite ODNB|title=Talbot [née Lyttelton], Lavinia (1849–1939), promoter of women's education|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-52031|access-date=2020-08-12|year = 2004|language=en|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/52031}}</ref> Their children were:{{citation needed|date=October 2020}} *Mary Catherine Talbot (2 October 1875 – 2 September 1957) who married Lionel Ford *Revd Edward Keble Talbot (31 December 1877 – 21 October 1949)<ref name=lav/> *Rt Revd Neville Stuart Talbot, Bishop of Pretoria (21 August 1879 – 3 April 1943)<ref name=lav/> *Lavinia Caroline Talbot (15 April 1882 – 30 September 1950) *Gilbert Walter Lyttelton Talbot (1 September 1891 – 30 July 1915, killed in action at Ypres), and after whom the Toc H organisation was named <gallery> File:Frank Bernard Dicksee00.jpg|Hon. Lavinia Lyttelton (Talbot's wife; 1920) by Frank Bernard Dicksee File:EdwardStuartTalbot.JPG|Monument to Edward Stuart Talbot in Southwark Cathedral File:Sanctuary Wood Cemetery -12.JPG|Gravestone of Talbot's youngest son Gilbert </gallery>
== Works == He wrote the following books:<ref>{{Cite web|date=January 31, 1934|title=Bishop Talbot Dies in London at 89|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1934/01/31/94487143.html?zoom=16.16|access-date=September 25, 2020|website=timesmachine.nytimes.com|page=17|language=en}}</ref>
* ''Influence of Christianity on Slavery'' (1867) * ''The War and Conscience'' * ''The Spiritual Sanctions of a League of Nations'' * ''Memories of Early Life'' (1925)
==Legacy== The Hall and one face of the Wolfson quadrangle of Lady Margaret Hall was named the Talbot Building after him: it was opened in 1910.<ref>Alden (1958)</ref>
The Talbot Fund at Keble College, established in 1999, also bears his name.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.keble.ox.ac.uk/alumni/development/talbot-fund |title=Talbot Fund |publisher=Keble College, Oxford |access-date=30 November 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070812115744/http://www.keble.ox.ac.uk/alumni/development/talbot-fund |archive-date=12 August 2007 }}</ref>
A memorial to Talbot stands in Southwark Cathedral in the form of a bronze effigy on top of a stone tomb, by sculptor Cecil Thomas.<ref name="glasgow">{{cite web|url=http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1208264663|title=Cecil Walter Thomas OBE, FRBS|work=Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland–1951|publisher=University of Glasgow|access-date=6 January 2016|archive-date=1 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160201121327/http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1208264663|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Footnotes== {{reflist}}
==Sources== *Dictionary of National Biography
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