Thomas Rice Mansel TALBOT

Male 1747 - 1813  (66 years)


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  • Name Thomas Rice Mansel TALBOT 
    Born 1747 
    Gender Male 
    Succeeded to 1768  Margam Abbey Park House, Neath, Glamorganshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Died 1813  Penrice Castle, Gower, Swansea, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    • Parish Baptism Register.
    Buried 24 May 1813  Parish Church of St Mary, Margam Abbey, Neath, Glamorgan, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Parish Baptism Register
    Notes 
    • Penrice Castle is the 13th century successor to a strong ringwork to the southeast, known as the Mountybank. It was built by the de Penrice family who were originally given land at Penrice for their part in the Norman conquest of Gower. The last de Penrice married a Mansel in 1410 and so the castle and its lands passed to the Mansel family. The Mansels later bought Margam Abbey, which they made their main seat while retaining their Gower lands. In the 17th century the castle was damaged in the English civil war. The stone castle is a large, very irregular hexagon with a round keep on the west side, to which were attached two other towers and a partial mantlet or chemise wall. At the northwest corner is a twin square towered gatehouse with another tower in the interior. The ground falls away steeply on the north, east, south and southwest sides, where there are various other turrets, though not very scientifically disposed. The whole structure is now in a dangerous condition, but the south wall can be seen from the footpath that runs past the 18th-century mansion on the estate (51.5742°N 4.1707°W), immediately to the south. The mansion, built in the 1770s by the neo-classical architect Anthony Keck for Thomas Mansel Talbot (1747-1813) of Margam and Penrice, is itself Grade I listed and one of the finest country houses in Wales. The surrounding park is also Grade I listed and was laid out by William Emes, a student of Capability Brown, when the mansion was built. The mansion was built to house Thomas Mansel Talbot's collection of antiquities and works of art. He visited Italy between 1769 and 1773 and bought antiquities from Thomas Jenkins, Gavin Hamilton and Giambattista Piranesi, which included a Minerva with bronze helmet and a funerary monument (now in the Courtauld Institute, London). He also bought modern furniture by Albacini and Valadier, and contemporary sculpture by Johan Tobias Sergel and commissioned busts of himself and Pope Clement XIV from Christopher Hewetson (the latter is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London), as well as acquiring paintings by Rembrandt and Hackert and drawings by Poussin. His collections were shipped from Italy in 1772 and 1775 and put on display after his marriage in 1792. A large part of the collection was later transferred to Margam Abbey and was sold at auction in 1941. The mansion is now lived in by the Methuen-Campbell family, who are direct descendants of the de Penrice family.
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    Last Modified 8 Nov 2020 

    Father Thomas TALBOT,   b. 1719,   d. 1758  (Age 39 years) 
    Relationship Birth 
    Mother Jane BEACH 
    Relationship Birth 
    Family ID F160  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Mary Lucy Fox STRANGWAYS,   b. Abt 1776, Redlynch, Somerset, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 3 Feb 1854, Penrice Castle, Gower, Swansea, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 78 years) 
    Married 1794  Melbury Osmund, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Children 
     1. Mary Theresa TALBOT,   b. 14 Aug 1795, Penrice Castle, Gower, Swansea, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Feb 1861, Margam Abbey Park House, Neath, Glamorganshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 65 years)  [Birth]
    +2. Jane Harriet TALBOT,   b. 13 Nov 1796, Penrice Castle, Gower, Swansea, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Jan 1874, Clifton, Bristol, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 77 years)  [Birth]
     3. Christiana Barbara TALBOT,   b. 14 Apr 1798, Penrice Castle, Gower, Swansea, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1810  (Age 11 years)  [Birth]
     4. Charlotte Louisa TALBOT,   b. 05 Feb 1800, Penrice, Gower, Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 1880, Coedarhydyglyn House, Coedarhydyglyn, St Georges, Glamorgan, South Wales Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 79 years)  [Birth]
     5. Elinor Sybilla TALBOT,   b. 16 Sep 1801, Penrice Castle, Gower, Swansea, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1810  (Age 8 years)  [Natural]
    +6. Christopher Rice Mansel TALBOT,   b. 10 May 1803, Penrice Castle, Gower, Swansea, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 17 Jan 1890, Margam Abbey Park House, Neath, Glamorganshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 86 years)  [Birth]
    +7. Isabella Catherine TALBOT,   b. 19 Nov 1804, Penrice Castle, Gower, Swansea, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 5 Jul 1874, Clemenstone House, St Andrews Minor, Glamorgan, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 69 years)  [Birth]
    +8. Emma Thomasina TALBOT,   b. 23 Sep 1806, Penrice Castle, Gower, Swansea, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 Apr 1881, 39 Cornwall Gardens, Kensington Gate, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 74 years)  [Natural]
    Last Modified 9 Nov 2020 
    Family ID F1316  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S59] Wikipedia.

    2. [S443] Stamford Mercury, Friday 14 February 1794, Marriage Notice.