Talbot Thomas 1771-1853 Rose To The Rank Of Colonel In The British
army, and for a time attached to the staff of Governor Simcoe. Resigning
his commission, obtained in 1801 a grant of 5000 acres on the north
shore of Lake Erie for the purposes of a settlement, and devoted himself
to its development. Brought out a band of colonists from England, and
others followed. Port Talbot became the centre of an ever-widening
region of cultivated land, until before his death twenty-eight townships
had been settled as the result of his efforts. =Index=: (John Graves Simcoe era) Aide-de-camp
to Simcoe, 177; returns to Ireland, later returns to Canada, and forms a
settlement in western Ontario, 178. =Bib.=: Six Years in the Canadas.
For biog., see Dict. Nat. Biog.; Dent, Can. Por.; Taylor, Brit.
Am. See also Coyne, The Talbot Papers (R. S. C., 1907).