(1719 - 87), e. s. of Hon. George Talbot; assumed title of Ld. Shrewsbury 1733 - 43 when suc. uncle as 14th E.; m. 1743 Hon. Elizabeth Dormer, dau. of 7th B. Dormer.
1739 - 40 Florence (Dec. 1739 - Jan. 1740), Venice (by 16 Mar. - Apr.), Rome (by 16 Apr. - Sep.), Florence (by 25 Sep. - 10 Nov. 1740) [England Sep. 1741)
Shrewsbury, a Catholic whose God, said Francis Dashwood, 'was an angry old man in a blue cloak', travelled with his tutor Bulstrode. He was in Florence in December 1739 and January 1740.1 By 16 March he had arrived in Venice with Charles-Just, Prince de Beauvau; they stayed a month before going on to Rome to witness the conclave to elect Clement XII's successor.2 Shrewsbury was in Rome by 16 April,3 by which time Stosch suspected that Bulstrode would 'seduce' his pupil into Jacobite principles.4 By 23 April Bulstrode had left with Beauvau for Naples; Horace Walpole, like Stosch, was suspicious of Bulstrode as 'not the most faithful'.5 Shrewsbury and Bulstrode were mixing in Jacobite circles at Albano early in June; Walpole then calling Bulstrode 'a simpleton' and saying Shrewsbury was going with the Countess Mahony to join her husband [in Naples?].6 By 25 September Shrewsbury had arrived in Florence from Rome,7 and left on 10 November.8 On his return journey Shrewsbury spent some time in France before reaching England in September 1741; Bulstrode then stayed in Boulogne to take charge of Shrewsbury's young brothers,9 but see Alban Butler.
1. Pomfret jnl.MSS (26, 31 Dec. 1739, 12 Jan. 1740). 2. Montagu Letters, 2:179, 182. 3. Wal.Corr., 17:4. 4. SP 98/43, f.33 (Walton, 17 Apr. 1740). 5. Wal.Corr., 17:11, 14. 6. Ibid., 28. 7. SP 98/44, f.206 (Walton, 25 Sep. 1740). 8. Pomfret jnl.MSS (10, 16 Nov. 1740). 9. Wal.Corr., 17:140.