Background
Thomas Talbot was born in Heythrop, Oxfordshire on 17 February 1727, a younger son of the Honourable George Talbot and Mary FitzWilliam.
Thomas Talbot was born in Heythrop, Oxfordshire on 17 February 1727, a younger son of the Honourable George Talbot and Mary FitzWilliam.
He attended Twyford School, and then Douai in 1739. He then returned to Douai to study theology. On the expulsion of the Jesuits from France, Talbot was named President of the College of Saint Omer"s in August, 1762.
In March 1776, he was consecrated to the titular See of Acon as coadjutor to Bishop Hornyold, whom he succeeded in the government of the Midland District in December, 1778.