DUNCOMBE, Very Rev. Augustus (brother of the preceding). b. Helmsley near York 2 Nov. 1814; ed. at Worcester coll. Ox., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1852, B.D. and D.D. 1859; preb. of York cathedral 18 Oct. 1841 to 1858; dean of York 28 May 1858 to death; precentor of York 1862 to death; declined Scotch bishopric of Argyll and the Isles 1874; spent a large sum of money on the cathedral; restored St. Mary’s ch. Castlegate, York at cost of £4000; author of Manual of family devotions 1868. d. York 26 Jany. 1880. bur. in Helmsley church 30 Jany., personalty sworn under £500,000 March 1880. A memorial of A. Duncombe, Dean of York 1880; The Church of England photographic portrait gallery 1859 pt. 49, portrait; Church Portrait Journal iii, 41, (1879), portrait.
DUNCOMBE, Octavius (brother of the preceding). b. 24 Arlington st. Piccadilly, London 8 April 1817; cornet 1 Life guards 3 April 1835, lieut. 19 July 1839, retired 1839; M.P. for North Riding of Yorkshire 1841–65 and 1867–74; an original director of Great Northern railway company 1846, chairman July 1874 to death; col. of Cambridgeshire militia 2 Aug. 1852 to death; sheriff of Hunts. 1866. d. 84 Eaton sq. London 3 Dec. 1879.
Note.—It is a curious coincidence that his death should have occurred on the same day as that of Edward Shipley Ellis chairman of the Midland Railway company.
DUNCOMBE, Thomas Slingsby (eld. son of Thomas Duncombe of Copgrove, Yorkshire 1769–1847). b. 1796; ed. at Harrow 1808–11; ensign Coldstream guards 17 Oct. 1811, lieut. 1815–19 when he sold out; contested Pontefract 1821 and Hertford 1823; M.P. for Hertford 15 June 1826 to 3 Dec. 1832; M.P. for Finsbury 2 July 1834 to death having sat longer for a Metropolitan borough than any former member; reputed to be best dressed man in the House; presented people’s petition praying for the six points of the charter 2 May 1842; entertained by United Trades Association at the Crown and Anchor tavern, Arundel st. Strand 21 Jany. 1846; took part in plot which led to Louis Napoleon’s escape from Castle of Ham near Amiens 25 May 1846. d. Lancing, Sussex 13 Nov. 1861 in 66 year. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 21 Nov. The life of T. S. Duncombe edited by his son T. H. Duncombe 2 vols. 1868, portrait; Orators of the age by G. H. Francis (1847) 327–37; Fraser’s Mag. x, 494–504 (1834), xxxiv, 349–52 (1846); Illust. News of the world ii (1858), portrait, viii, 321 (1861), portrait; I.L.N. i, 180 (1842), portrait, v, 5 (1844), portrait.
DUNCOMBE, William Reginald (eld. son of 1 Earl of Feversham b. 1829). b. London 1 Aug. 1852; ed. at Eton; M.P. for North Yorkshire 2 Feb. 1874 to death. d. Madeira 24 Dec. 1881. bur. Helmsley near York 12 Jany. 1882.
DUNCUFT, John. Sharebroker at Oldham 1824 to death; M.P. for Oldham 31 July 1847 to death. d. Frodsham, Cheshire 27 July 1852.
DUNDAS, Charles William Deans (elder son of Sir J. W. D. Dundas 1785–1862). Ensign 42 foot 25 Dec. 1828; ensign Coldstream guards 3 Aug. 1830, lieut. 24 Feb. to 21 April 1837; M.P. for Flint district 1837 to 1841. d. Edinburgh 11 April 1856 aged 45.
DUNDAS, Sir David (3 son of James Dundas of Ochtertyre, Perthshire). b. Edinburgh 1799; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox., student 1820, B.A. 1820, M.A. 1822; barrister I.T. 7 Feb. 1823, bencher 1840, reader 1852, treasurer 1853; Q.C. April 1840; M.P. for Sutherlandshire 1840–52 and 1861–67; solicitor general 10 July 1846 to 25 March 1848; knighted at St. James’s palace 24 Feb. 1847; judge advocate general 26 May 1849 to Feb. 1852; P.C. 29 June 1849; a trustee of British Museum 1861–67; F.R.S. d. 13 King’s Bench Walk Temple, London 30 March 1877.
DUNDAS, Frederick (only son of Charles Lawrence Dundas 1771–1810, M.P. for Malton). b. 14 June 1802; M.P. for Orkney and Shetland 1837–47 and 1852 to death. d. 24 Hanover sq. London 26 Oct. 1872.
DUNDAS, George (brother of Sir David Dundas 1799–1877). b. Edinburgh 19 Nov. 1802; ed. at high school Edin., Glasgow univ. and Ex. coll. Ox., LLD. Edin.; B.A. Ox. 1824; called to bar in Scotland 1826; vice dean of faculty of advocates; sheriff of co. Selkirk 4 Nov. 1844 to 1845; a judge of court of sessions with title of Lord Manor 14 Oct. 1868 to death. d. Charlotte sq. Edinburgh 7 Oct. 1869. Law magazine and law review xxix, 274–76 (1870).