William Talbot (piper)

[3] An article[2] in the Dublin Morning Post recorded that, "His Majesty seemed much pleased with Talbot, and applauded him frequently."

William Talbot was most probably born in Ireland between 1781 and 1792, although no official records of his birth or parentage have been located.

The most detailed information about his life comes from a memoir[4] published on 16 December 1820, in the Belfast Commercial Chronicle.

In this memoir he stated that he was born in 1781 at Roscrea, County Tipperary, losing his sight aged four years old following infection with smallpox.

A research paper titled A Genealogically Led History of William Talbot, the Celebrated Irish Piper (2023) by John Binnie-Dawson offers a history of William Talbot and his family.