Dame Meriel Lucy Talbot, DBE (16 June 1866 – 15 December 1956) was a British public servant and women's welfare worker.

[2] In 1891 she combined work at the Women's University Settlement (WUS) for the Children's Country Holiday Fund, the post of secretary to the Ladies' Branch of Oxford House (again chaired by her mother), and social work training at the WUS relating to the Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants.

[1] The Land Army had 23,000 recruits by the end of the war and there was a monthly magazine named The Landswoman which Talbot edited.

[5] Talbot stayed at the new Ministry of Agriculture after the First World War and was named adviser on women's employment in 1920.

[1] She retired in 1921, but continued to perform public work, serving as intelligence officer for the Overseas Settlement Department and on a number of official committees, including the Royal Commission on Police Powers and Procedure in 1929.