Lieutenant (later Lieutenant-Colonel) George Richard Talbot, 8th Bengal Native Infantry, 1835 (c)

Oil on canvas by William Melville 1835 (c).

Talbot (1801-1853) was born in Calcutta (Kolkata), India, the son of an East India Company officer. He frequently transferred between regiments in order to hasten his promotions, and reached the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in 1853, shortly before his death.