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    needed] Related to the Earls of Shrewsbury, the Talbots' main estates were in Salwarpe, Worcestershire. They acquired Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire through his...
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    Lacock Abbey in the village of Lacock, Wiltshire, England, was founded in the early 13th century by Ela, Countess of Salisbury, as a nunnery of the Augustinian...
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  • Leicestershire in 1360/1 John Talbot (New Romney MP) (died 1403), MP for New Romney Sir John Talbot of Lacock (1630–1714), English Member of Parliament for Worcestershire...
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    decipherment of cuneiform, and ancient history. Talbot was born in Melbury House in Dorset and was the only child of William Davenport Talbot, of Lacock Abbey...
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    415°N 2.117°W / 51.415; -2.117 Lacock, England was first mentioned in the Domesday Book in 1086 with a population of less than 200, two small mills and...
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    process of photography. She briefly experimented with the process herself as early as 1839. Her watercolours and drawings remained hidden at Lacock Abbey...
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    John Ivory-Talbot (c. 1691 – October 1772), of Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire, was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons between...
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    Henry John Chetwynd-Talbot, 18th Earl of Shrewsbury, 18th Earl of Waterford, 3rd Earl Talbot, CB, PC (8 November 1803 – 4 June 1868), styled Viscount Ingestre...
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  • He was born the son of Henry Yelverton, 1st Viscount Longueville, and his wife, Barbara, daughter of Sir John Talbot of Lacock, Wiltshire and educated...
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    under Henry VIII. It then became a country house, Lacock Abbey, notable as the site of Henry Fox Talbot's early experiments in photography. It seems that...
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