Robert Talbot

Robert Talbot (1505/6–1558) was an English antiquary and scribe of Anglo-Saxon. He was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, where he obtained his BA in 1525 and his MA in 1529. He subsequently became a schoolmaster at Brentwood, Essex, held various ecclesiastical benefices, and served as a chaplain to Archbishop Thomas Cranmer. In 1547 he became a prebendary and canon of Norwich Cathedral.

He is chiefly remembered for his Annotationes in eam partem Itinerarii Antonini quae ad Britanniam spectat, a topographical analysis of the Roman Antonine Itinerary: this remained unpublished in his lifetime, but was known to scholars including William Camden.