Arthur Duncombe (1806-1889)
- Arthur Duncombe (1806-1889)
Admiral the Honorable Arthur Duncombe (24 March 1806 – 6 February 1889) was a British naval commander and Conservative politician.
Duncome was a younger son of Charles Duncombe, 1st Baron Feversham, and his wife Lady Charlotte, daughter of William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth. He 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 Yorskhire between 1852 and 1868. He served in the short-lived 1852 Conservative administration of the Earl of Derby as a Civil Lord of the Admiralty.
Duncombe married firstly Delia, daughter of John Wilmer Field, in 1836. After her death in 1873 he married secondly Jane Maria, daughter of Sir James Walker, 1st Baronet. His son from his first marriage, Arthur Duncombe, was also a politician. Duncombe died in February 1889, aged 82. His second wife died in August 1917.
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