Lavinia Talbot

Hon. Lavinia Talbot (, 4 January 1849 – 9 October 1939) was a British promoter of women's education in the United Kingdom. She was a member of the Association for Promoting the Education of Women.

Life

Lavinia Lyttelton was born in London in 1849. She was the seventh child of George Lyttelton, 4th Baron Lyttelton and Mary, Lyttelton née Glynne, and grew up in the family seat of Hagley Hall in Worcestershire. She had eleven siblings, and in 1864 her elder sisters left her, aged fifteen, to care for her father, younger sister, and eight brothers at Hagley Hall. She escaped five years later when her father remarried and the following year she married. Her new husband however had become the warden at Keble College the year before and she had a new house to run.

Members of the committee who organised the lectures for women moved on to join the Association for Promoting the Education of Women in Oxford, including Mary Ward, Louise Creighton, Charlotte Byron Green

Their children were:

Mary Catherine Talbot (2 October 1875 – 2 September 1957) who married Lionel Ford Revd Edward Keble Talbot (31 December 1877 – 21 October 1949) Rt Revd Neville Stuart Talbot, Bishop of Pretoria (21 August 1879 – 3 April 1943) Lavinia Caroline Talbot (15 April 1882 – 30 September 1950) Gilbert Walter Lyttelton Talbot (1 September 1891 – 30 July 1915, killed in action at Ypres), and after whom the Toc H Christian organisation was named