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DUNCOMBE, ANTHONY, 1ST BARON FEVERSHAM, only son of Anthony Duncombe MP, Governor Scarborough Castle, and Jane, eldest dau. of Hon. Frederick Cornwallis; b.; at school under Knipe (Steward, Anniversary Dinner 1730/1); Grand Tour; inherited a large fortune from his uncle Sir Charles Duncombe MP, a banker and Lord Mayor of London; MP Salisbury 6 May 1721-34, Downton 1734-47; cr. Baron Feversham 23 Jun 1747; m. 1st, 1 Jan 1714/5 Hon. Margaret Verney, dau. of Very Rev. George Verney DD, 12th Baron Willoughby De Broke, Dean of Windsor; m. 2nd, 3 Nov 1756 Frances, dau. of Peter Bathurst MP, Clarendon Park, Wilts.; m. 3rd, 10 Aug 1758 Anne, sister of John Hales (qv); d. 18 Apr [or Jun ?] 1763, aged 68 (M. I. Downton, Wilts. ).

DUNCOMBE, ARNOLD, son of John Duncombe, Stocks, Aldbury, Herts., and his second wife Elizabeth, dau. of Nehemiah Arnold; half-brother of Lewis Duncombe (qv); b.; adm. (aged 9) Sep 1732; left 1742; of Stocks and Sarratt, Herts.; JP Hertfordshire (occurs 1762-73); d. 14 Mar 1774.

DUNCOMBE, CHARLES SLINGSBY, brother of Thomas Duncombe (qv); b.; adm. (aged 7) Apr 1735; Lincoln Coll. Oxford, matr. 28 Oct 1745, but sent down 1747 for assaulting maidservant of Dr William King; inherited Duncombe estates on death of his brother Thomas in 1779; m. 29 Aug 1764 (IGI) Isabel, dau. of Robert Soleby, Helmsley, Yorks.; d. 11 Sep 1803.

DUNCOMBE, HENRY, brother of Thomas Duncombe (qv); bapt. Helmsley, Yorks. 23 Jan 1728 (IGI); adm. (aged 8) Jan 1736/7 (Wynniate's); left 1745; Lincoln Coll. Oxford, matr. 28 Oct 1745; adm. Middle Temple 6 Apr 1747; probably “Henrique Documbe” recorded as visiting Capua, Italy, in Jan 1753; of Copgrove, Yorkshire; MP Yorkshire 1780-96; d. 10 Apr 1818.

DUNCOMBE, LEWIS, son of John Duncombe, Stocks, Aldbury, Herts., and his first wife Elizabeth, dau. of William Lowndes MP, Chesham, Bucks., Secretary to the Treasury; bapt. 10 Jul 1711; adm. (aged 10) Apr 1722; left 1728; Merton Coll. Oxford, matr. 27 Nov 1728; adm. Middle Temple 12 Feb 1729/30; d. of smallpox at Oxford 26 Dec 1730.

DUNCOMBE, THOMAS, eldest son of Thomas Duncombe MP, Duncombe Park, Helmsley, Yorks., and Mary, Maid of Honour to Queen Anne, dau. of Sir Thomas Slingsby, Bart.; b.; adm. (aged 8) Dec 1732; left 1740; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 18 May 1742; succeeded to family’s Yorkshire estates on death of father in 1746, and to Wiltshire estates of Anthony Duncombe, 1st Baron Feversham (qv), in 1763; Grand Tour (Italy) 1747; MP Downton 12 Apr 1751-4, Morpeth 1754-68, Downton 1768- 14 Feb 1775 and from 8 Sep 1779; member, Society of Dilettanti 1747; m. 1st, 9 Feb 1748/9 Lady Diana Howard, younger dau. of Henry Howard, 4th Earl of Carlisle; m. 2nd, 24 Feb 1772 Anne, dau. of Sir Philip Jennings Clerke, Bart., MP (qv); m. 3rd, 25 Jun 1778 Charlotte, dau. of William Hale, King’s Walden, Herts.; d. 25 Nov 1779.

DUNCOMBE, WILLIAM; b.; in school list 1736. [an error for Charles Slingsby Duncombe ?]

DUNDAS, SIR DAVID, third son of James Dundas, Ochtertyre, Perthshire, Writer to the Signet, and Elizabeth, dau. of William Graham, Airth, Stirlingshire; b. 24 Jan 1799; adm. 29 Jan 1810; KS 1812; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1816, matr. 25 May 1816, Westminster Student; BA 1820; MA 1822; adm. Inner Temple, called to bar 7 Feb 1823, Bencher 1840, Treasurer 1853; QC Apr 1840; MP (Whig/Liberal) Sutherlandshire Apr 1840 - Jul 1852, Mar 1861 - May 1867; Solicitor-General 10 Jul 1846 - Mar 1848, resigning on grounds of health; knighted 4 Feb 1847; Judge Advocate-General 30 May 1849 - Feb 1852; Privy Councillor 29 Jun 1849; inherited Ochtertyre estate 1842; Trustee, British Museum 1861-7; Busby Trustee 5 May 1855-75; Chairman of committee chosen at meeting of OWW held in Jun 1860 to consider the question of the removal of the School into the country; presented a small collection of Greek and Roman coins to the School 1873; d. unm. 30 Mar 1877. DNB.

DUNDAS, FREDERICK CHARLES, son of Cdr. Frederick George Dundas, Royal Navy, and Eliza, dau. of Charles Beck, Northampton; b. 16 Jan 1868; adm. 21 Oct 1879; left Dec 1882; RMC Sandhurst 1888; 2nd Lieut., Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders 23 Mar 1889; Lieut., 18 Nov 1893; Capt. 21 Dec 1898; Maj., 18 Apr 1911; temp. Lieut. -Col., 31 Oct 1914; Brevet Lieut. -Col., 18 Feb 1915 (for distinguished service in the field); Lieut. -Col., 1 Jan 1917; half-pay 29 Jun 1919; retired 22 Nov 1919; served in 1914-18 War; mentioned in despatches LG 17 Feb 1915, 1 Jan 1916, 4 Jan 1917, 5 Jun 1919; DSO 1 Jan 1917; m. 10 Jan 1905 Elizabeth Drummond, eldest dau. of James Thomson, Glenpark, Midlothian; d. 28 Jan 1941.

DUNE, ---; b.; adm.; QS 1556 (Chapter Muniments 37713).