IVORY TALBOT, John (?1691-1772), of Lacock Abbey, Wilts.

Ivory Talbot’s maternal ancestor, Sir William Sharington, acquired Lacock from the Crown in 1540 at the dissolution of the monasteries.VCH Wilts. iii. 314. Returned as a Tory for Ludgershall a year after succeeding to his estates, and later twice unopposed for the county, he voted consistently against the Government. His only recorded speech was against the Quakers title bill, 3 May 1736. In 1721 his name was sent to the Pretender as a probable supporter in the event of a rising.Stuart mss 65/16. In 1735 the mother of his nephew, Thomas, 2nd Lord Mansel, then aged 14, objected successfully to his being made sole guardian of her son because she ‘did not care that Mr. Talbot, whose wife is mad ... and is himself driven to drink, should have the sole management of her son’s education’.HMC Egmont Diary, ii. 143. He did not stand again, dying October 1772.