Bridget Elizabeth Talbot Bridget Elizabeth Talbot Bridget Elizabeth Talbot (1885 – 29 November 1971), was a British politician and campaigner. She was the daughter of the Hon. Alfred Chetwynd-Talbot, youngest son of the 18th Earl of Shrewsbury and Emily Louisa Augusta, eldest daughter of the 5th Baron Walsingham. In 1914 she started the cultivation of co-operative gardens on waste land. The Ministry of Agriculture later adopted the scheme all over the country. She did much work with the Red Cross and refugee organizations in Belgium, Italy, Turkey, and Russia during and after the 1914–18 war. She received the Italian Medal for Valour for
Shire of Talbot and Clunes with the shire. On 31 May 1965, an Order in Council united the Borough of Clunes with the Shire of Talbot to create the new Shire. On 20 January 1995, the Shire was abolished and split between the Shire of Central Goldfields (Talbot) and the Shire of Hepburn (Clunes). Talbot and Clunes was divided into four ridings, each of which elected three councillors: Shire of Talbot and Clunes The Shire of Talbot and Clunes was a local government area about northwest of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of , and existed from 1860