Arthur Duncombe (Royal Navy officer)

Arthur Duncombe
Arthur Duncombe
Born	24 March 1806
Died	6 February 1889 (aged 82)
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	Royal Navy
Rank	Admiral

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

Background

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

Career

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.[1] He served in the short-lived 1852 Conservative administration of the Earl of Derby as a Fourth Naval Lord.[2]

Family

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).[1] After Delia's death in 1873 he married secondly Jane Maria, daughter of Sir James Walker, 1st Baronet.[1] Duncombe's second wife died in August 1917. Duncombe lived at Kilnwick Percy Hall at Pocklington in the East Riding of Yorkshire.[3] He died in February 1889, aged 82.

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References

The Peerage.com
Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty British History on Line
Pocklington History

Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Arthur Duncombe

Military offices
Preceded by Sir Alexander Milne, Bt	Fourth Naval Lord 1852–1853	Succeeded by Sir Alexander Milne, Bt
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Sir Robert Dundas William Battie-Wrightson	Member of Parliament for East Retford 1830–1831 With: Viscount Newark	Succeeded by Granville Vernon Viscount Newark
Preceded by Granville Harcourt-Vernon Viscount Newark	Member of Parliament for East Retford 1835–1852 With: Granville Harcourt-Vernon 1835–1847 The Viscount Galway 1847–1852	Succeeded by William Duncombe The Viscount Galway
Preceded by Henry Broadley The Lord Hotham	Member of Parliament for Yorkshire East Riding 1852–1868 With: The Lord Hotham	Succeeded by William Harrison-Broadley Christopher Sykes
Court offices
Preceded by ?	Groom in Waiting in Ordinary 1841–1846	Succeeded by Sir Edward Bowater
Political offices
Preceded by William Cowper-Temple	Civil Lord of the Admiralty 1852	Succeeded by William Cowper-Temple

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[peerage-1] The Peerage.com

[2] Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty British History on Line

[3] Pocklington History