Editing Henry Fox Talbot (section)

== Early life ==
Talbot was born in [[Melbury House]] in Dorset<ref>{{Cite web |title=Melbury Sampford Parish Records, Dorset |url=https://www.opcdorset.org/MelburySampfordFiles/MelburySampford.htm |access-date=2023-01-10 |website=opcdorset.org}}</ref> and was the only child of William Davenport Talbot, of [[Lacock Abbey]], near [[Chippenham]], Wiltshire, and his wife Lady Elisabeth Fox Strangways, daughter of the [[Henry Fox-Strangways, 2nd Earl of Ilchester|2nd Earl of Ilchester]]. His governess was [[Agnes Porter]] who had also educated his mother.<ref>Joanna Martin, 'Porter, (Ann) Agnes (c.1752–1814)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2009 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/67676, accessed 11 Aug 2017]</ref> Talbot was educated at [[Rottingdean]], [[Harrow School]] and at [[Trinity College, Cambridge]], where he was awarded the [[Porson Prize]] in Classics in 1820, and graduated as twelfth [[Wrangler (University of Cambridge)|wrangler]] in 1821.<ref>{{acad|id=TLBT817WH|name=Talbot, William Henry Fox}}</ref> From 1822 to 1872, he communicated papers to the Royal Society, many of them on mathematical subjects. At an early period, he began optical research, which later bore fruit in connection with photography. To the ''[[Edinburgh Philosophical Journal]]'' in 1826 he contributed a paper on "Some Experiments on Coloured Flame"; to the ''[[Quarterly Journal of Science]]'' in 1827 a paper on "Monochromatic Light"; and to the ''[[Philosophical Magazine]]'' papers on chemical subjects, including one on "Chemical Changes of Colour".{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}