A Pair of George III Silver Two-Light Candelabra and a Pair of Matching Candlesticks

London, 1777
Maker’s mark of John Wakelin & William Taylor

The crest and coronet ius that for John Chetwynd-Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot and Viscount of Ingestre, 3rd Baron Talbot (1749–1793) nephew of 2nd Baron Talbot, in 1786 he assumed by Royal license the additional surname and arms of Chetwynd.

Height of candelabra: 45.7 cm, 18 in
Weight of suite: 5,163 g, 166 oz

The candlesticks of trumpet-form, chased with stiff leaves, and on four ball feet. The bases crested below baron's coronets with a lion passant on a chapeau for Talbot. The candlesticks with matching branches with two-handled urn finials. Two bases hallmarked with Wakelin & Taylor maker's mark only repeated four times. The suite numbered and with their scratch weights.

John Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot (25 February 1749 – 19 May 1793), known as John Talbot until 1782 and as The Lord Talbot between 1782 and 1784, was a British peer and politician. A member of Talbot family headed by the Earl of Shrewsbury, Talbot was the son of John Talbot, younger son of Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot, and his wife Catherine, daughter of John Chetwynd, 2nd Viscount Chetwynd.

Talbot was returned to Parliament for Castle Rising in 1777, a seat he held until 1782, when he succeeded his uncle, William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, as third Baron Talbot and entered the House of Lords.


In 1784 the earldom of Talbot which had become extinct on his uncle's death was revived when Talbot was created Viscount of Ingestre, in the County of Stafford, and Earl Talbot, of Hensol in the County of Glamorgan. Two years later he assumed by Royal licence the additional surname and arms of Chetwynd, having inherited Ingestre Hall via his mother from the Chetwynd family.

Lord Talbot married Lady Charlotte, daughter of Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, in 1776. A portrait of Talbot was painted by Pompeo Batoni while there are portraits of his wife by both Sir Joshua Reynolds (1783; now in Tate Britain) and by Thomas Gainsborough and John Hoppner (1788; now in the Dunedin Public Art Gallery). Lord Talbot died at Fairford, Gloucestershire, in May 1793, aged 44, and was succeeded in his titles by his eldest son, Charles, whose son Henry succeeded as Earl of Shrewsbury in 1858. The Countess Talbot died in January 1804.