Family and Education
b. prob. 1507/8, 1st s. of Edmund Talbot of Bashall by Anne, da. of John Hart and sis. of Sir Percival Hart of Lullingstone, Kent. m. by 1533, Cecily, da. of William Venables of Kinderton, Cheshire, 1s. 1da., also 1s. illegit. suc. fa. 20 Feb. 1520. Kntd. 11 May 1544.Date of birth estimated from age at fa.’s i.p.m. Chetham Soc. xcix. 150, but according to VCH Lancs. vi. 278 he was only three at his fa.’s death. Vis. Lancs. (Chetham Soc. xcviii), 40n; J. B. Watson, ‘Lancs. gentry 1529-58’ (London Univ. M.A. thesis, 1959), 492; LP Hen. VIII, xix.
Offices Held
Sheriff, Lancs. 1551 – 52; commr. chantries 1554, ?1555, to survey woods and game, Leagram park and Bowland forest 1555/56; steward, duchy of Lancaster, Blackburn hundred 1554 – 56, jt. 1556 – d., master forester, Bowland 1554–6.
Parlimentarian
Main residences: Bashall, Yorks.; Rishton; Lower Darwen, Lancs.
Volume
Commons 1509-1558
Web Title
TALBOT, Sir Thomas (prob.1507/8-58)
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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Addresses
Religion
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