Neville Stuart Talbot MC was Bishop of Pretoria in the Anglican Church of Southern Africa and later a robust vicar of St Mary's Church, Nottingham and assistant Bishop of Southwell who turned down the chance to be Bishop of Croydon.
21 Facts About Neville Talbot
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Neville Talbot was born at Keble College, Oxford, and died at Henfield, Sussex.
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Neville Talbot was the third child and second son of his parents.
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Neville Talbot's mother, Lavinia Talbot, was a promoter of women's education.
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Neville Talbot attended the Grammar School, and then was at Haileybury from 1892 to 1899.
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Neville Talbot joined the Army in 1898, just in time for the Boer War.
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Neville Talbot was inclined to go straight at things, without weighing the risk.
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Neville Talbot went up to Christ Church, Oxford, in October 1903.
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Neville Talbot was made deacon at Ripon Cathedral on 14 June 1908.
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Neville Talbot was an assistant curate at St Bartholomew's Church, Armley, from 1908 to 1909.
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Neville Talbot was ordained priest in Lent 1909 and went to be Chaplain of Balliol College, Oxford, in October.
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Neville Talbot was appointed to St Mary's Church, Nottingham in 1933 and as Assistant Bishop of Southwell the next year.
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Neville Talbot used to refer to St Mary's as St Pelican in the Wilderness.
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Neville Talbot arrived snuffing like a great war-horse, longing for the battle; determined to bring Nottingham to the feet of Christ.
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Neville Talbot was not a little handicapped by the fact that he came just when the migration from the city began, with the result that the old-fashioned kind of worshippers had largely moved into the country.
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Neville Talbot's congregation did not increase as he had hoped.
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The parish was largely non-residential, and the church was surrounded by factories and offices which Neville Talbot used to visit carrying handbills announcing the special dinner-hour service.
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Neville Talbot was in excellent relations with the non-Anglican religious bodies in Nottingham.
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Neville Talbot likened himself to "an old hulk stranded on a lee-shore".
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Neville Talbot would have been Suffragan and Archdeacon as well as Vicar.
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Neville Talbot retired to Sussex for convalescence where he died.