Sir George John Talbot , PC (19 June 1861 – 11 July 1938) was an English barrister and High Court judge.
Talbot's father was educated at Charterhouse, but his disapproval of the migration of that school to Godalming caused him in 1873 to send his son to Winchester College.
In 1880 Talbot gained a junior studentship at Christ Church, Oxford, where he obtained first-class honours in classical moderations (1882) and in literae humaniores (1884).
Until late in his career at the bar his busy practice was mainly before parliamentary committees, and in work of a like character, such as in the Railway and Canal Commission.
Of the latter case, Lord Greene, future Master of the Rolls, thought that Talbot's argument, before a troublesome and divided tribunal, was the finest effort of advocacy which he ever heard.
In the opinion of Sir Frank Douglas MacKinnon If Talbot had been appointed then, his judicial career would probably have ended in the House of Lords.
Talbot died on 11 July 1938 at Falconhurst, near Edenbridge, Kent, the pleasant estate created by his grandfather, and was buried at Markbeech near by.
When he left Oxford he set himself a great programme of Greek and Latin literature, and by the strict devotion of a fixed daily time he completed the task in upwards of thirty years.
Some foolish person allegedly once asked Charles Gore whether the law was a suitable career for a man of high ideals; the bishop answered: 'Do you know George Talbot?'