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Arthur Duncombe (Royal Navy officer)

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Arthur Duncombe
Born24 March 1806
Died6 February 1889 (1889-02-07) (aged 82)
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service / branchRoyal Navy
RankAdmiral

Admiral Arthur Duncombe (24 March 1806 – 6 February 1889) was a British naval commander and Conservative politician.

Background

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Duncombe was a younger son of Charles Duncombe, 1st Baron Feversham, and his wife Lady Charlotte, daughter of William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth.

Career

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Duncombe served in the Royal Navy and achieved the rank of admiral. Apart from his naval career he also sat as Member of Parliament for East Retford between 1830 and 1831 and 1835 and 1852 and the East Riding of Yorkshire between 1852 and 1868.

He served in the short-lived 1852 Conservative administration of the Earl of Derby as a Fourth Naval Lord.[1] Duncombe lived at Kilnwick Percy Hall at Pocklington in the East Riding of Yorkshire.[2] He was selected as High Sheriff of Yorkshire for 1874–75.[3]

Family

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He married firstly Delia, daughter of John Wilmer Field, in 1836. Their eldest son, Charles Wilmer Duncombe, was a Major-General in the Army; their second son Arthur Duncombe was also a politician; while their fourth and youngest son George Augustus Duncombe was created a baronet in 1919 (see Duncombe baronets). After Delia's death in 1873 he married secondly Jane Maria, daughter of Sir James Walker, 1st Baronet. Duncombe's second wife died in August 1917. He himself died in February 1889, aged 82.

See also

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  • O'Byrne, William Richard (1849). "Duncombe, Arthur" . A Naval Biographical Dictionary . John Murray – via Wikisource.

References

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  1. ^ Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty British History on Line
  2. ^ Pocklington History
  3. ^ "SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, February 2, 1874". London Gazette. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
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Military offices
Preceded by Fourth Naval Lord
1852–1853 		Succeeded by
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for East Retford
1830–1831
With: Viscount Newark 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of Parliament for East Retford
1835–1852
With: Granville Harcourt-Vernon 1835–1847
The Viscount Galway 1847–1852 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Yorkshire East Riding
1852–1868
With: The Lord Hotham 		Succeeded by
Court offices
Preceded by
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 Groom in Waiting in Ordinary
1841–1846 		Succeeded by
Political offices
Preceded by Civil Lord of the Admiralty
1852 		Succeeded by


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