Henry Duncombe M.P.

Member of Parliament

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 for Yorkshire

Yorkshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Yorkshire was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England from 1290, then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832...

 (1780–96), lived at Copgrove

Copgrove

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, Yorkshire.

Duncombe was a vocal supporter of the Parliamentary struggle for the repeal

Repeal

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 of the Test

Test Act

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 and Corporation Acts. According to The Journal of the House of Commons the campaign for repeal reached Parliament on March, 5 1792, and a petition from stewards of societies in Bradford

Bradford

Bradford lies at the heart of the City of Bradford, a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, in Northern England. It is situated in the foothills of the Pennines, west of Leeds, and northwest of Wakefield. Bradford became a municipal borough in 1847, and received its charter as a city in 1897...

, Yorkshire

Yorkshire

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 was ordered to be considered by a committee, including the Yorkshire M.P.s Henry Duncombe and William Wilberforce

William Wilberforce

William Wilberforce was a British politician, a philanthropist and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade. A native of Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, he began his political career in 1780, eventually becoming the independent Member of Parliament for Yorkshire...

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He is more well known in popular culture for inventing the Yorkshire reverse knight.