Education
Talbot was educated at Clifton and Exeter College, Oxford.
Talbot was educated at Clifton and Exeter College, Oxford.
He was ordained in 1886 and was a curate at Gateshead Parish Church and then a lecturer in church history and doctrine in the Dioceses of Durham, Ripon and Newcastle. He then held incumbencies in Sunderland and Derby. From 1906 to 1928 he was a Canon Residentiary at Bristol Cathedral and Archdeacon of Swindon.
He was then Dean of Rochester until his retirement in 1932.