Edward Stuart Talbot (19 February 1844 – 30 January 1934) was an Anglican bishop in the Church of England and the first Warden of Keble College, Oxford.

[1] When the First World War started in August, 1914, it was a surprise to many including Bishop Talbot who, in January, 1914, had written, ‘No year has opened with greater anxieties.

‘It is a sober truth that in its scale, in the numbers whom it will touch, in the amount of suffering which it may cause, there has been nothing like it in the history of Europe.’[3] He quoted the support given to Britain ‘by our Colonies, by the main body of American opinion, and by public feeling in Italy, all of them in a degree independent witnesses’, as indicative of the righteousness of the British cause fighting ‘for freedom’.

[8] In 1869 he was appointed first warden of Keble College, Oxford, and he stayed there until 1888 when he accepted the post of Vicar of Leeds Parish Church, where he remained for six years (1889–1895).

[17] A memorial to Talbot stands in Southwark Cathedral in the form of a bronze effigy atop a stone tomb, by sculptor Cecil Thomas.