Thomas Mansel Talbot

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Thomas Mansel Talbot. Marble bust by Christopher Hewetson from around 1773 , Victoria and Albert Museum

Thomas Mansel Talbot (* 1747 - May 10, 1813 ) was a British country nobleman and art collector.

Life

Thomas Mansel Talbot came from the Talbot family , which can be traced back to the Anglonormans . He was the eldest son of Thomas Talbot and Jane Bach, making him a grandson of John Ivory Talbot and Mary Mansel. According to the will of Christopher Mansel, 3rd Baron Mansel , after the death of Bussy Mansel, 4th Baron Mansel in 1750 , his father was heir to the extensive estates of the Mansel family in South Wales, which is why Thomas was nicknamed Mansel . His father died in 1758, so that Thomas Mansel Talbot inherited the estates, which comprised around 137 km² of land, at the age of eleven. After he came of age in 1768, he undertook an extensive Grand Tour to Italy until 1773 . During his trip he acquired a large collection of ancient sculptures and paintings. After his return, stimulated by Italian villas, he began to build a classicist country house on the then remote and wildly romantic Gower peninsula in South Wales . By 1777 a new mansion was built there below the ruins of the medieval Penrice Castle , surrounded by a magnificent landscaped garden. In 1787, however, he had the previous main residence of the Mansel family, the 16th century manor house of Margam Abbey near Margam, demolished. Instead, he had an orangery built in the middle of an extensive garden on the site of the mansion by 1793 , which is considered the longest in Great Britain and which, in addition to orange trees, also housed the Talbot sculpture collection.

In 1781 he served as sheriff for Glamorgan . In the 1789 general election, Talbot was the leader of a group of independent, local country nobles who supported country nobleman Thomas Wyndham of Dunraven as a candidate for Glamorgan against Thomas Windsor, candidate for the Duke of Beaufort. The country nobles opposed the peers who, like Lord Mount Stuart or the Duke of Beaufort , owned extensive estates in South Wales, but almost never lived in South Wales themselves. With the help of the landed nobles, Wyndham won the election and was able to defend his mandate in subsequent elections until his death in 1814.

The Orangery of Margam (2006)

Family and offspring

Probably in 1792 Thomas Mansel Talbot met 16-year-old Mary Lucy Fox-Strangways , a daughter of Henry Thomas Fox-Strangways, 2nd Earl of Ilchester and Mary Theresa O'Grady. He married her in February 1794. His cousin William Davenport Talbot met Elizabeth, an older sister of his wife, during a visit to him in Penrice in 1795. They married in 1796.

After several years of illness, Talbot died in 1813. He had eight children with his wife, including:

  • Mary Therese Talbot (1795–1861)
  • Jane Harriot Talbot (1796–1874) ∞ John Nicholl
  • Charlotte Louisa Talbot (1800–1880) ∞ John Montgomery Traherne
  • Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot (1803-1890)
  • Isabella Catherina Talbot (1804–1874) ∞ Richard Franklen
  • Emma Thomasiana Talbot (1806-1883) ∞ John Dillwyn Llewelyn

After his death in 1815, his widow married the naval officer Sir Christopher Cole . Most of his sculpture collection was auctioned off before Margam Castle was sold in 1941.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ EP Statham: History of the family of Maunsell (Mansell, Mansel) . London 1917, p. 41
  2. ↑ Margaret Escott: Talbot, Christopher Rice Mansel ; History of Parliament Online. Retrieved January 18, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Arachne: 1000066: Mansel Talbot / Margam Park. Retrieved January 18, 2015 .
  4. ^ Charles Wilkins: History of the Iron, Steel, Tinplate and Other Trades of Wales . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2011. ISBN 978-0-511-79546-6 , p. 387
  5. ^ Peter DG Thomas: Glamorgan, 1754-1790 ; History of Parliament Online. Retrieved January 18, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Joanna Martin: Wives and daughters. Women and children in the Georgian country home Hambledon and London, London 2004. ISBN 1-85285-271-2 , p. 59
personal data
SURNAME Talbot, Thomas Mansel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British nobleman and art collector
DATE OF BIRTH 1747
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1813