Edward Talbot | |
|---|---|
| Bishop of Winchester | |
&sq=&lang=&file=File:Edward_Stuart_Talbot_Vanity_11_October_1911.jpg) Talbot in Vanity Fair magazine, 11 October 1911 | |
| Church | Church of England |
| Diocese | Winchester |
| Elected | 1911 |
| Predecessor | Herbert Ryle |
| Successor | Theodore Woods |
| Other post(s) | Bishop of Southwark 1905–1911 Bishop of Rochester 1895–1905 |
| Orders | |
| Consecration | c. 1895 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 19 February 1844 |
| Died | 30 January 1934 (aged 89) |
| Buried | Outside Winchester Cathedral |
| Denomination | 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.[1]
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.’[2] 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.’[3] 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’.[4] 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’. [5] 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. [6]
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.[7]
- ^ "Edward Stuart Talbot". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
- ^ Winchester Diocesan Chronicle, January,1914
- ^ Winchester Diocesan Chronicle, September, 1914
- ^ Winchester Diocesan Chronicle, September, 1914
- ^ Diocesan Chronicles were published monthly with news of the bishop’s activities.
- ^ ‘Edward Stuart Talbot’, by Gwendolyn Stephenson, Spck, 1936, p223
- ^ ‘Edward Stuart Talbot’, by Gwendolen Stephenson, Spck, 1936, p204