Bertram Talbot, 17th Earl of Shrewsbury

Bertram Arthur Talbot, 17th Earl of Shrewsbury, 17th Earl of Waterford (11 December 1832 – 10 August 1856) was a British nobleman.

Talbot was educated by private tutors. He succeeded his second cousin John as Earl of Shrewsbury and Waterford, and Lord High Steward of Ireland in 1852.^[1] He was appointed to the ceremonial post of Vice-Admiral of Cheshire on 9 March 1854^[2] and as a deputy lieutenant of Staffordshire on 9 June 1854. Shrewsbury died two years later, on 10 August 1856, and his peerages passed to the next male-line relative, the 3rd Earl Talbot, in the only major leap of the title. They shared the same ancestor nine generations back: John Talbot (died 1549).^[1]

The Earl funded the building of Shrewsbury Cathedral in 1853-1856 but he died unmarried aged 23, three months prior its completion.^[3]

He was the last Roman Catholic Earl of Shrewsbury.