Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 20th Earl of Shrewsbury

Major Charles Henry John Chetwynd-Talbot, 20th Earl of Shrewsbury, 20th Earl of Waterford, 5th Earl Talbot KCVO (13 November 1860 – 7 May 1921), styled Viscount Ingestre from 1868 to 1877, was a British peer.

Talbot, who was born at Eaton Place, Belgravia, London, was the only son and heir of Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 19th Earl of Shrewsbury and 4th Earl of Talbot. His grandfather, Henry Chetwynd-Talbot, 18th Earl of Shrewsbury, had inherited the earldoms from a very distant cousin, and had to prove his claim to the premier earldoms of Britain and Ireland on the Roll in the House of Lords, by demonstrating his descent from the 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury and Waterford. Talbot was the brother of Gertrude who married the 13th Earl of Pembroke, and, a notable hostess, Theresa who married the 6th Marquess of Londonderry.

Talbot's very rich father died when Talbot was a schoolboy of 16. All his father's real and personal estate was left to Talbot's mother. She lived until 1912 when he was aged 51.

Talbot was educated at Eton College and inherited his titles when only sixteen years of age. Aged nineteen he eloped with an older married woman, Ellen née Palmer-Morewood, wife of commoner, Alfred Edward Miller Mundy of Shipley Hall whom she had married in 1873. Ellen was a granddaughter of the 7th Baron Byron (a cousin of the poet Lord Byron, the 6th Baron), and already had a daughter. Talbot's heir, Lord Ingestre, was born less than three months after the marriage of his parents. Ingestre died in the lifetime of his parents, but had several children including the father of the current Earl, 21st Earl of Shrewsbury and Waterford.

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