Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot

Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot (10 May 1803- January 1890) was a wealthy south Wales landowner, industrialist (and Liberal Member of Parliament for Glamorgan from 1830 until his death) who saw the potential of his family's estates as a site for an extensive ironworks, served by railways and a port at what became known as Port Talbot.

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10 May - 1803 - 1890 - Wales - Liberal - Member of Parliament - Glamorgan - 1830 - Railway - Port Talbot

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Talbot was born into the wealthy family of Thomas Mansel Talbot on 10 May 1803 at Penrice on the Gower Peninsula, near Swansea. He was educated in Dorset, at Harrow School and at Oriel College, Oxford, from where he graduated in 1824. In the meantime, after his father's death in 1813, he had inherited the family estates at Penrice and Margam, which were held in trust until he came of age in 1824.

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Penrice - Gower - Swansea - Harrow School - Oriel College, Oxford - 1824 - 1813 - Margam

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