Sir William Talbot, 3rd Baronet (c.1643-1691) was the last of the

Talbot baronets There have been two baronetcies created for persons with the surname Talbot, both in the Baronetage of Ireland. One creation was forfeited while the other is extinct. The Talbot baronetcy, of Carton in the County of Kildare, was created in the B ...

of Carton: his title was forfeited on account of his loyalty to King

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. He was an Irish politician and judge, who served briefly as

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. He was born about 1643, the only son of

Sir Robert Talbot, 2nd Baronet Sir Robert Talbot, 2nd Baronet ( – 1670) of Carton was an Irish landowner, soldier, and politician. Talbot was the eldest son of Sir William Talbot, 1st Baronet and his wife Alison Netterville. His father was a landowner and politician from ...

of Carton, and Grace Calvert, daughter of George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore and his wife Anne Mynne (or Mayne). His father was the eldest of eight brothers, of whom the most eminent were Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, and Peter Talbot, Archbishop of Dublin. All three brothers served the Stuart dynasty with notable loyalty during the

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and the

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, and William shared his family's loyalty to the Stuarts. He was called to the Bar, succeeded to his father's title in 1670, and for a time acted as Secretary to the

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, presumably at the request of his maternal uncle,

Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore (8 August 1605 – 30 November 1675), also often known as Cecilius Calvert, was an English nobleman, who was the first Proprietor of the Province of Maryland, ninth Proprietary Governor of the Colony of New ...

, who was Proprietor of Maryland. The Talbot and Calvert families were devoutly

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; William's uncle Archbishop Talbot died in prison in 1680, a victim of the fabricated

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. Perhaps inspired by his uncle's example, Sir William in 1682 made a public plea for religious toleration of Catholics. His open Catholic beliefs, combined with the influence of his uncle Lord Tyrconnell who, as

Lord Deputy of Ireland The Lord Deputy was the representative of the monarch and head of the Irish executive under English rule, during the Lordship of Ireland and then the Kingdom of Ireland. He deputised prior to 1523 for the Viceroy of Ireland. The plural form is ...

, became for a short time almost all-powerful in Ireland, gained him preferment, especially during the reign of the ardently Catholic King James II. He became a Commissioner of the Revenue in 1682, a member of the

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in 1687 and Master of the Rolls in 1689. He sat in the Patriot Parliament of 1689 as member for

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. After the downfall of James II, Talbot was attainted and his lands and title were subsequently forfeited under the Williamite Settlement. He died at

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in May 1691. He married in 1683 Lady Anne Nugent, widow of Lucas Dillon, 6th Viscount Dillon, and daughter of Richard Nugent, 2nd Earl of Westmeath and Mary Nugent; she died in 1710.''Burke's Peerage'' p.3854 They had no children.

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William William is a masculine given name of Norman French origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conq ...