peoplepill id: thomas-talbot-6
TT
United Kingdom Great Britain England
2 views today
2 views this week
Thomas Talbot (antiquary)
English antiquarian

Thomas Talbot (antiquary)

The basics

Quick Facts

Intro
English antiquarian
Work field
Gender
Male
The details (from wikipedia)

Biography

Thomas Talbot (fl. 1580) was an English antiquary.

Life

He was the second son of John Talbot (d. 1551) of Salesbury, Lancashire, by his second wife, Anne, daughter of Richard Banaster of Altham. Before 1580 he had become clerk of the records in the Tower of London, and may be the ‘learned’ Mr. Talbot referred to by Dr. John Dee. He was an original member of the Society of Antiquaries, and occurs in Francis Tate's list of members in 1590. William Camden wrote: ‘Not to conceal my obligations to any, I must acknowledge myself under very great ones to Thomas Talbot, a diligent examiner of records and perfect master of our antiquities’.

Works

None of Talbot's collections are known to have been published. The major ones were left in manuscript in major libraries:

  • collections relating to abbeys;
  • extracts from chronicles and pedigrees (including that of his own family);
  • a collection of historical and constitutional antiquities;
  • a collection of abstracts from ‘Inquisitiones post mortem’ relating to Yorkshire families;
  • an account of the proceedings of the court of claims at the coronations of Richard II, Henry IV, and Henry V;
  • a ‘Catalogus Archicamerariorum Angliæ’;
  • collections of pedigrees;
  • ‘Collectanea e Rotulis in Turri Lond. servatis’;
  • notes from his genealogical collections are extant in Rawlinson MS. B. 103.

Other antiquarian collections, the authorship of which has not been determined, may be by Talbot (cf. Cat. Brit. Mus. Addit. MS. 26717).

The contents of this page are sourced from Wikipedia article. The contents are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
Lists
Thomas Talbot (antiquary) is in following lists
comments so far.
Comments
From our partners
Sponsored
Thomas Talbot (antiquary)
arrow-left arrow-right instagram whatsapp myspace quora soundcloud spotify tumblr vk website youtube pandora tunein iheart itunes