Ian Talbot

[Yoshi Heffernan]

TheTalbot (also known as the St. Hubert Hound) was a type of hunting hound common in England during the Middle Ages. It is depicted in art of the period as small to medium-sized, white in colour, with short legs, large powerful feet, a deep chest with a slender waist, long drooping ears, and a very long curled tail. It is shown in one well-known example at Haddon Hall with a fierce facial expression. It is now extinct, but is believed to be an ancestor of the modern Beagle[1] and Bloodhound.[2] It is uncertain whether it was a scenthound (bred for the quality of its nose), a sighthound (bred for the quality of sight and speed), or a dog used for digging out quarry, nor is it known what type of quarry it hunted, whether deer, fox, boar, etc.

In medieval times, "Talbot" was a common name for an individual hound, as used before 1400 in Chaucer's "The Nun's Priest's Tale" (line 3383), and is used as an example of a hound name in George Turberville's 1575 work The Noble Art of Venerie or Huntyng.[3]

By the 17th century it clearly existed as a breed or type. Large, heavy, slow hounds were "talbot-like", whatever their colour, though the "milk white" was "the true talbot".[4] In his poem "The Chase",[5] published in 1735, William Somervile describes the use of "lime-hounds" (leash hounds) on the Scottish Borders to catch thieves, obviously referring to the Bloodhound and the sleuth hound, but adds that the (white) Talbot was the "prime" example of this type of hound.

The Talbot and the Greyhound were, apparently, the only hounds used in English heraldry, and it could be that the Talbot originated as an emblematic or heraldic hound.[8] References to this heraldic Talbot seem to be earlier than any references to a real dog.[6] The Talbot appears in many coats of arms, for instance in later ones of the Earls of Shrewsbury, in which two Talbots appear as supporters.[9][1]

It is quite plausible that from these beginnings the name "Talbot" was extended to any large, heavy, white scent hound, and from there helped to establish a breed or type. It was certainly similar to the Bloodhound ("white" is given as one of the colours of the Bloodhound in the 16th and 17th centuries)[10] as regards size, and as regards use to a leash-hound.[4]

The Talbot seems to have existed as a breed, a little distinct from the Bloodhound, until the end of the 18th century,[11] after which, like two other large breeds to which it may have been related, the Northern Hound and the Southern Hound, it disappeared. Some early dog-shows apparently offered classes for Talbots, but attracted no entrants, so they were dropped.

The arms of the Carter family of Castle Martin (see Carter-Campbell of Possil) include a Talbot. The arms of the Earls Waldegrave have supporters of two Talbots. The Talbot Hound was also the symbol of Weston Road High School in the county town of Stafford, Staffordshire. It used to be used in all school stationery and was displayed as white on a navy blue background on ties and jumpers in the school uniform. It was removed when Weston Road became an academy. The Talbot also appears as a supporter in the arms of the Marquess of Sligo. The Earl of Talbot and Shrewsbury coat of arms was used on Talbot cars manufactured at a purpose-built factory at Barlby Road, Kensington, London and sold as Talbots until 1937. It is now used on the logo of the Talbot Owners' Club.

"The Talbot" (or "Talbot Arms") is most familiar as a name of English public houses or inns and is usually depicted on the signs as a large white hound with hanging ears, sometimes with spots. Heraldic inn signs usually displayed the arms or heraldic badges of the lord of the manor in which they were situated, who was probably the owner of the freehold interest, together with that of most other houses in the village.[13] As the Talbot family possessed countless manors throughout England, the sign would have been well-known. Such signs helped to identify the inn for the illiterate. An inn called The Talbot in Iwerne Minster, Dorset, U.K., showed as its sign a black dog, apparently the crest of the Bower family, who owned the manor from the late Middle Ages till 1876.[14] The "Talbot Inn" in Mells, Somerset is an allusion to the arms of the Horner family of Mells Manor: Sable, three talbots argent, the arms being possibly a play on the surname as hunting hounds are controlled by the blowing of horns.

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The Honorable Patricia E. ("Patti") Campen was sworn into office as the Register of Wills for Talbot County on January 2nd, 2013. Prior thereto, she served as Assistant Chief Deputy and Chief Deputy for almost six years, working for the Honorable Alice W. Anderson.

An Eastern Shore native, Patti graduated from Easton High School in 1980. While still in high school, she began working for an attorney in Easton which later grew into a law firm where she remained for over twenty-five years. During that time she worked as an office administrator and paralegal, gaining extensive experience in diverse areas of law including probate, real estate, corporate, and civil litigation. As office administrator, she was responsible for development of office procedures, including implementation of software programs for information management, and human resource management.

Educational background includes advanced courses at Chesapeake College and Salisbury University concentrating in paralegal and accounting studies. She has enrolled in various continuing education courses with an emphasis on probate through the Maryland Institute for Continuing Professional Education for Lawyers (MICPEL).

Patti serves on the Probate Review and Personnel Committees. She is also a proud member of the Easton Rotary Club. She is a former member of the Oxford Planning Commission and a 2013 graduate of Shore Leadership. Patti enjoys reading, boating and traveling. She and her husband, Sidney S. Campen, Jr., live in Oxford.

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