Baron Feversham
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and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
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. The first creation, in the Peerage of Great Britain, came in 1747 in favour of Anthony Duncombe, who had earlier represented Salisbury
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and Downton
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in the House of Commons
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. However, the barony became extinct on his death in 1763. The peerage was revived in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1826 in favour of Charles Duncombe
Charles Duncombe, 1st Baron Feversham
Charles Duncombe, 1st Baron Feversham was a British Member of Parliament.Feversham was appointed High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1790. He was elected to the House of Commons for Shaftesbury in 1790, a seat he held until 1796, and then represented Aldborough from 1796 to 1806, Heytesbury from 1812 to...
, who was created Baron Feversham, of Duncombe Park
Duncombe Park
Duncombe Park is the seat of the Duncombe family whose senior member takes the title Baron Feversham. It is situated near Helmsley, North Yorkshire, England and stands in a commanding location above deeply incised meanders of the River Rye....
in the County of York. He was a former Member of Parliament
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for Shaftesbury
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, Aldborough
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, Heytesbury
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and Newport
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. His son, the second Baron, sat as a Conservative
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Member of Parliament for Yorkshire
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and the North Riding of Yorkshire
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.
He was succeeded by his son, the third Baron. He represented East Retford
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and the North Riding of Yorkshire
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in the House of Commons as a Conservative. In 1868 he was created Viscount Helmsley, of Helmsley
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in the North Riding of the County of York, and Earl of Feversham, of Ryedale
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in the North Riding of the County of York. He was succeeded by his grandson, the second Earl, who sat in Parliament as a Conservative representative for Thirsk and Malton
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. He was killed in the First World War, when the titles were inherited by his son, the third Earl. He notably served as a Lord-in-Waiting
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(government whip
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in the House of Lords
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) from 1934 to 1936 in the National Government
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. On his death in 1963 the viscountcy and earldom became extinct. However, he was succeeded in the barony of Feversham by his distant relative (his fourth cousin), the sixth Baron. He was the great-great-grandson of Admiral Hon. Arthur Duncombe, fourth son of the first Baron. the title is held by his eldest son, the seventh Baron, who succeeded in 2009.
Several other members of the Duncombe family have also gained distinction. The Hon. Arthur Duncombe, younger son of the first Baron, was an Admiral in the Royal Navy
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and Member of Parliament. His son Arthur Duncombe
Arthur Duncombe (1840-1911)
Arthur Duncombe , was a British Conservative politician.Duncombe was the son of Admiral the Hon. Arthur Duncombe, a younger son of Charles Duncombe, 1st Baron Feversham. His mother was Delia, daughter of John Wilmer Field...
was a Conservative Member of Parliament. The Very Reverend Augustus Duncombe (1814–1880), younger son of the first Baron, was Dean
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of York. The Hon. Octavius Duncombe
Octavius Duncombe
The Hon. Octavius Duncombe was a British Conservative politician.-Background:Duncombe was a younger son of Charles Duncombe, 1st Baron Feversham, and Lady Charlotte, daughter of William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth. Admiral the Hon...
, younger son of the first Baron, represented the North Riding of Yorkshire
North Riding of Yorkshire (UK Parliament constituency)
North Riding of Yorkshire was a parliamentary constituency in the North Riding of Yorkshire. It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom....
in Parliament.
The ancestral seat of the Duncombe family is Duncombe Park
Duncombe Park
Duncombe Park is the seat of the Duncombe family whose senior member takes the title Baron Feversham. It is situated near Helmsley, North Yorkshire, England and stands in a commanding location above deeply incised meanders of the River Rye....
near Helmsley
Helmsley
Helmsley is a market town and civil parish in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, England. The town is located at the point where the valleys of Bilsdale and Ryedale leave the higher moorland and join the flat Vale of Pickering. It is situated on the River Rye and lies on the A170 road, east...
in Yorkshire
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.
Barons Feversham, Second Creation (1826)
- Charles Duncombe, 1st Baron FevershamCharles Duncombe, 1st Baron FevershamCharles Duncombe, 1st Baron Feversham was a British Member of Parliament.Feversham was appointed High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1790. He was elected to the House of Commons for Shaftesbury in 1790, a seat he held until 1796, and then represented Aldborough from 1796 to 1806, Heytesbury from 1812 to...
(1764–1841) - William Duncombe, 2nd Baron FevershamWilliam Duncombe, 2nd Baron FevershamWilliam Duncombe, 2nd Baron Feversham was a British peer and Tory politician.-Background:Feversham was the eldest son of Charles Duncombe, 1st Baron Feversham, and Lady Charlotte, daughter of William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth. The Hon. Arthur Duncombe and the Hon...
(1798–1867) - William Ernest Duncombe, 3rd Baron FevershamWilliam Duncombe, 1st Earl of FevershamWilliam Ernest Duncombe, 1st Earl of Feversham , known as The Lord Feversham between 1867 and 1868, was a British Conservative politician....
(1829–1915) (created Earl of Feversham in 1868)
Earls of Feversham (1868)
- William Ernest Duncombe, 1st Earl of FevershamWilliam Duncombe, 1st Earl of FevershamWilliam Ernest Duncombe, 1st Earl of Feversham , known as The Lord Feversham between 1867 and 1868, was a British Conservative politician....
(1829–1915) - Charles William Reginald Duncombe, 2nd Earl of FevershamCharles Duncombe, 2nd Earl of FevershamLieutenant-Colonel Charles William Reginald Duncombe, 2nd Earl of Feversham , known as Viscount Helmsley from 1881 to 1915, was a British Conservative Party politician and soldier....
(1879–1916) - Charles William Slingsby Duncombe, 3rd Earl of FevershamCharles Duncombe, 3rd Earl of FevershamCharles William Slingsby "Sim" Duncombe, 3rd Earl of Feversham DSO , styled Viscount Helmsley until 1916, was a British Conservative politician....
(1906–1963)
Barons Feversham, Second Creation (1826; Reverted)
- Charles Anthony Peter Duncombe, 6th Baron FevershamCharles Anthony Peter Duncombe, 6th Baron FevershamCharles Anthony Peter Duncombe, 6th Baron Feversham was a British nobleman...
(1945–2009) - Jasper Orlando Slingsby Duncombe, 7th Baron Feversham (b. 1968)
The heir apparent
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is the present holder's son Hon. Orlando Balthazar Duncombe (b. 2009).