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Tailboys
Tailboys or Talboys was the name of a prominent gentry family from Lincolnshire, England.
People of this surname include:
- Ivo Taillebois (d 1094), Norman landholder in Lincolnshire and sheriff.
- Brian Talboys (1921–2012), New Zealand politician
- Elizabeth Blount, also known as Bessie Blount, who became Baroness Tailboys on her marriage
- Gilbert Tailboys (c.1497/8–30 April 1530), 1st Baron Tailboys of Kyme
- Graeme K. Talboys (b. 1953), English writer.
- Keith Talboys (b. 1931), former English cricketer.
- Steve Talboys (b. 1966), former English footballer.
- Sir William Tailboys, 7th Baron Tailboys of Kyme, Lincolnshire squire.
- "Talboys" is also the name of the fictional country home of Lord Peter Wimsey and his wife Harriet.