Augustus Welby Northbourne Pugin (1812-52) was received into the Church in Salisbury in 1835. The next year he published his Contrasts, in which he argued for the revival of Gothic architecture and also “a return to the faith and social structure of the Middle Ages”.
John Talbot, the 16th Earl of Shrewsbury, was born in 1791. The title derived from the exploits of an earlier John Talbot who was a major English military commander in the closing phases of the 100 Years War. He died at the Battle of Castillon in 1453. The Whig 12th Earl apostatised in 1679, and received a dukedom for his pains. He was succeeded in the earldom by Catholic cousins.
