Talfourd

Talfourd, SIR THOMAS NOON, was born at Doxey, near Stafford, 26th January 1795. The son of a Reading brewer, he was educated at the grammar-school there under Dr Valpy, and in 1821 was called to the bar at the Middle Temple. He became a serjeant-at-law (1833), Whig member for Reading (1835-41 and 1847-49), and a justice of Common Pleas (1849), at the same time being knighted. He died of apoplexy during Stafford assizes, 13th March 1854. Talfourd is remembered by his four nearly forgotten tragedies, of which Ion (1835) was brought out by Macready at Covent Garden; by his Copyright Act (q.v.) of 1842; and by his writings on Charles Lamb.