Fitzroy Talbot

Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur Allison Fitzroy Talbot KBE CB DSO & Bar DL (22 October 1909 – 16 June 1998) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth.

His paternal ancestors included the politicians Jacob Bouverie, 1st Viscount Folkestone, Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort, William Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby, and Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth.

[3] After the War he became chief staff officer (operations) for the Far East Station[4] before taking command of the frigate HMS Alert in 1949.

[3] In 1950 he was appointed naval attaché in Moscow and then, as commander of 3rd Destroyer Squadron, he took part in the Suez Crisis in 1956 after which he became commodore, Royal Navy Barracks, Portsmouth, in 1957.

[5] Following the death of his first wife, in 1983 he married Elizabeth, daughter of Rupert Handley Ensor and former wife of Royal Navy Captain Richard Steel and of stockjobber Sir Esmond Otho Durlacher (1901-1982).