William Talbot of Kineton

William Talbot (18 May 1717 – 2 March 1774), often called "Talbot of Kineton" after his first living Kineton in Warwickshire, was an evangelical clergyman of the Church of England.

The son of Sherington Talbot of the 38th Foot and his wife Elizabeth Medget(t), and grandson of William Talbot the Bishop of Durham, he was the elder brother of Sir Charles Henry Talbot, 1st Baronet. He matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford in 1737, graduating B.A. and M.A. in 1744.

Talbot was ordained priest by Thomas Secker, then Bishop of Oxford, at the end of 1745. A friend of Sanderson Miller, Talbot is thought by Hawkes to have owed him his appointment to the Kineton living. Miller made changes to Kineton Church, for Talbot, in a Gothic Revival style, in 1755–6.

In 1757 Talbot was one of group of evangelical preachers invited during the summer season to Cheltenham, by William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth. At this period he was also under the influence of Lady Huntingdon, and spent time as a peripatetic "field preacher", to be found with Martin Madan in Northamptonshire as reported by James Hervey. His friend Thomas Haweis, then recently ordained, gave his view of Talbot's conversion of the late 1750s to evangelical views in writing to Samuel Walker of Truro in 1759:

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