Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot

The Right Honourable The Lord Talbot PC
Lord Talbot, by John Vanderbank
Lord Chancellor
In office 1733–1737
Preceded by	The Lord King
Succeeded by	The Lord Hardwicke
Personal details
Born	1685
Died	14 February 1737(1737-02-14) Lincoln's Inn Fields
Alma mater	Oriel College, Oxford

Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot PC (1685 – 14 February 1737) was a British lawyer and politician. He was Lord Chancellor of Great Britain from 1733 to 1737.

Talbot was the eldest son of William Talbot, Bishop of Durham, a descendant of the 1st Earl of Shrewsbury. He was educated at Eton and Oriel College, Oxford, and became a fellow of All Souls College in 1704. He was called to the bar in 1711, and in 1717 was appointed solicitor general to the prince of Wales. Having been elected a member of the House of Commons in 1720, he became Solicitor General in 1726, and in 1733 he was made lord chancellor and raised to the peerage with the title of Lord Talbot, Baron of Hensol, in the County of Glamorgan.

Talbot proved himself a capable equity judge during the three years of his occupancy of the Woolsack. Among his contemporaries he enjoyed the reputation of a wit; he was a patron of the poet James Thomson, who in The Seasons commemorated a son of his to whom he acted as tutor; and Joseph Butler dedicated his famous Analogy to Talbot. The title he assumed derived from the Hensol estate in Pendoylan, Glamorgan, which came to him through his wife.