William Henry Fox Talbot

Barbara Talbot

Jun 30, 2021

anniversaries, archaeology, genealogy, Science

Anne Paston, Barbara Talbot, John Ashdown-Hill, John Earl of Shrewsbury, Michael Ibsen, mtDNA evidence, photography, Ricardian, Sir Gilbert Talbot, Talbots, William Henry Fox Talbot

On page 130 of The last days of Richard III and the fate of his DNA, John Ashdown-Hill described John Talbot of Lacock, father of one of the many Barbaras in Richard’s mtDNA, as “John Talbot belonged to a cadet line of the descendants of the great John Talbot”, but there is no table to…
Well, I had no idea the Ancient Egyptians were so ahead of their time….!

Dec 5, 2020

archaeology, humour, Science

Ancient Egypt, DNA analysis, extra terrestrias, funeral mask, illness, injuries, photograohy, pyramids, Tutankhamun, wi-fi, William Henry Fox Talbot

Well, the above reconstruction of Tutankhamun is a revelation, not only that he was so unlike his wonderful funeral mask, but also because….oh dear, you couldn’t make it up. Here’s an extract from this article :- “….What King Tut Really Looked Like….They conducted DNA studies and found out how frail the pharaoh was. He was…
Another prominent Talbot

Sep 17, 2019

anniversaries, genealogy, Science

Anne of Exeter, Assyriology, calotype, Earls of Ilchester, Edward IV, integral calculus, inventors, John Earl of Shrewsbury, Louis Daguerre, mathematics, Mesopotamia, patents, photographs, Royal Institution, Royal Society, spectral analysis, Talbots, William Henry Fox Talbot, Y-chromosome

Last year, we brought you the news that the developers of the Stanley knife were descended from Thomas, Baron Stanley, subsequently Earl of Derby. Now we can announce that a great scientist and inventor was a Talbot, authentically descended from John “Old Talbot”, Earl of Shrewsbury and posthumous father-in-law to Edward IV. William Henry Fox…

William Henry Fox Talbot

Barbara Talbot

Well, I had no idea the Ancient Egyptians were so ahead of their time….!

Another prominent Talbot