[1][2] He was born in Boston in Colonial America where his father was serving as a captain in the British Army garrison of the city.
He travelled to London for the debut of Ireland's claimed Shakespeare discovery Vortigern and Rowena at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, but seems to have returned to Dublin before the play was put on and the hoax was revealed.
[5] He succeeded the previous manager of Belfast's Arthur Street Theatre Thomas Ludford Bellamy, who had himself recently replaced the long-standing Michael Atkins.
Between 1808 and 1821 Talbot was manager of the Belfast, Newry and Derry theatres and continued to play leading roles on stage.
[6] From 1821 he acted primarily at the Crow Street Theatre in Dublin while also making occasional performances in Belfast, where he died in April 1831.