Charles Duncombe, 3rd Earl of Feversham

Charles William Slingsby "Sim" Duncombe, 3rd Earl of Feversham DSO (2 November 1906 – 4 September 1963), styled Viscount Helmsley until 1916, was a British Conservative politician.

Feversham was the eldest son of Charles Duncombe, 2nd Earl of Feversham, and his wife Lady Marjorie Blanche Eva, daughter of Francis Greville, 5th Earl of Warwick, and was educated at Eton. He succeeded in the earldom in 1916, aged only nine, when his father was killed in the First World War. He later took his seat on the Conservative benches in the House of Lords and served under Ramsay Macdonald and Stanley Baldwin as a Lord-in-Waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) from 1934 to 1936 and under Baldwin and later Neville Chamberlain as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and Deputy Minister of Fisheries from 1936 to 1939. He was also a Lieutenant-Colonel in the 13th/18th Royal Hussars and an Honorary Colonel in the Queen's Own Yorkshire Yeomanry and fought in the Second World War, where he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in 1945. He was Treasurer of the University of Leeds from 1959 to his death.

Lord Feversham married Lady Anne Dorothy, daughter of Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, in 1936. They had one daughter. He died in September 1963, aged 56. On his death the earldom and viscountcy of Helmsley became extinct while he was succeeded in his junior title of Baron Feversham by his kinsman Charles Anthony Peter Duncombe who was (like the 3rd Earl of Feversham) a great-great-great grandson of Charles Duncombe, 1st Baron Feversham. The Countess of Feversham was made an MBE in 1950 and a CBE in 1979. She died in 1995.

References

• Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages
• www.thepeerage.com

External links

• Charles Duncombe, 3rd Earl of Feversham, at the National Portrait Gallery

Political offices
Preceded by Herwald Ramsbotham	Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries 1936 – 1939	Succeeded by The Lord Denham
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Charles William Duncombe	Baron Feversham 1916 – 1963	Succeeded by Charles Anthony Duncombe
	Earl of Feversham 1916 – 1963	Extinct