John Talbot
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John Talbot of Lacock
Sir John Talbot of Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire, Long Acre, Westminster, and Salwarpe, Worcestershire (7 June 1630 – 13 March 1714), was an English soldier, politician, and landowner, who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1660 and 1687. He was a second in a duel between George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Francis Talbot, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury.
Biography
Talbot was son of Sherington Talbot. He stood unsuccessfully for parliament at Worcestershire in 1659 and was elected Member of Parliament for Worcestershire in the Convention Parliament in 1660. He was knighted by King Charles II at Whitehall on 6 June 1660 and became a Justice of the Peace for Worcestershire on 10 July 1660. He was commissioned as an ensign in the Company of Foot under Grey on 26 January 1661 and captain of a company of the Kings Own Regiment of Foot Guards in February 1661. In 1661 he was elected a Member of Parliament for Knaresborough in the Cavalier Parliament and held the seat until 1679. In January 1668 he was second for his kinsman Francis Talbot, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury in a duel with George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham when Earl was killed. According to Samuel Pepys, Talbot was also injured. Talbot became lieutenant colonel of the Barbados Regiment of Dragoons on 30 March 1672 and served until 1674, when the regiment was disbanded. He was colonel of the Regiment of Dragoons from 22 February 1678 to 1679, when it was disbanded.
Thomas Palasor
Thomas Palasor (died 9 August 1600) was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987.
Life
Palasor was born at Ellerton-on-Swale, parish of Catterick, North Riding of Yorkshire. He arrived at Reims on 24 July 1592, and set out for the English College, Valladolid on 24 August 1592. There, he was ordained priest in 1596.
He was arrested in the house of John Norton, of Ravenswroth, nearly Lamesley, County Durham. Norton seems to have been the second son of Richard Norton, of Norton Conyers, attainted for his share in the Rising of the North in 1569. Norton and his wife (if the identification is correct, she was his second wife, Margaret, daughter of Christopher Redshaw of Owston) were arrested at the same time, with a noble English gentleman, the Blessed John Talbot, one of the Talbots of Thornton-le-Street, North Riding of Yorkshire.
All four were tried at Durham and condemned to death, Palasor for being a priest, and the others for assisting him. Another gentleman was condemned at the same time but saved his life by conforming to the Church of England, as the others might have done. Mrs. Norton, being supposed to be with child, was reprieved. The others were executed together.
John Talbot Coke
Major General John Talbot Coke (1841-1912) of Trusley in South Derbyshire was a British Army officer that served in the 25th Foot (King's Own Scottish Borderers) between 1859 to 1901. He wrote a family history book called "Coke of Trusley, in the County of Derby, and Branches Therefrom; a Family History" which was published in 1880. He was a Brigade Commander during the Second Boer War having a prominent role in the battles of Spion Kop and the Tugela Heights during the relief of Ladysmith.
Early life and career
John Talbot Coke was born in Trusley on the 9th of August 1841, he was the eldest son of Honorary Colonel Edward Thomas Coke, a Captain of the 69th Regiment and Diana Talbot, descendent of John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury. His Great grandfather was the Reverend D'Ewes Coke, a colliery owner and philanthropist.
He was educated at Harrow and gained his commission in 1859, gaining his Lieutenancy with the 25th Foot in 1861.
Military career
In 1866 he was promoted to Captain while in Canada during the Fenian raids. By 1888, now a Colonel he was second in command of the King's Own Scottish Borderers in the Sudan and took part in the one sided victory at Suakin for which he was mentioned in despatches gaining both the Khedive's Star and a 3rd class Medjidie. In 1889 he was involved in operations on the Nile, presumably as part of the war against the Mahdist's.
