Fitzroy Talbot

Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur Allison Fitzroy Talbot KBE CB DSO & Bar DL (22 October 1909 – 16 June 1998) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth.

Early life Son of Royal Navy Captain Henry Fitzroy George Talbot (1874-1920), DSO (a third great-grandson of Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain from 1733 to 1737) and Susan Blair Athol (died 1951), daughter of William Allison, of South Kilvington, Thirsk, Yorkshire, Talbot had an elder sister, Nesta (1905-1994). His paternal ancestors included the politicians Jacob Bouverie, 1st Viscount Folkestone, Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort, William Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby, and Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth.

Naval career Educated at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Fitzroy Talbot joined the Royal Navy in 1926. He went to sea as a midshipman in the battleship HMS Royal Oak. before taking command of the frigate HMS Alert in 1949. Following the death of his first wife, in 1983 he married Elizabeth, daughter of Rupert Handley Ensor and former wife of Royal Navy Captain Richard Steel and of stockjobber Sir Esmond Otho Durlacher (1901-1982).

Fitzroy Talbot