Olive Talbot

[4] Commented a contemporary, "Her memory is revered by multitudes of worshippers in churches restored at her sole cost, in many mountain solitudes and busy industrial vales.

In 2012 the tradition ended when an Indian restaurant received permission to sell alcoholic drinks on the premises.

[8] One of her biggest projects, the church of St Nicholas in Nicholaston, Gower, was completed just two months after she died.

[10] The Church of St Michael and All Angels at Maesteg was also built as a memorial to Olive Talbot's generosity.

[11] Novelist and businesswoman Amy Dillwyn called Olive Talbot her "wife" in private diaries, in 1872.