Family and Education
b. c. 1647, 1st s. of Sir John Duncombe. educ. travelled abroad 1666. m. settlement 30 May 1672, Jane (bur. 17 Feb. 1701), da. of Sir Frederick Cornwallis, 1st Baron Cornwallis, 2s. (1 d.v.p.) 3da. suc. fa. 1687.Beds. N. and Q. ii. 46; CSP Dom. 1665-6, p. 540; F. A. Blaydes, Gen. Bed. 344; Beds. Par. Regs. xxxvii (Battlesden), 2, 11, 13; Prob. 6/82/245.
Offices Held
Commr. for assessment, Beds., Suff. and Bury St. Edmunds 1673 – 80, Beds. 1689 – 90, recusants, Suff. 1675; j.p. Beds. 1680 – bef.83, Feb. 1688 – d.; freeman, Eye by 1681; dep. lt. Beds. Feb. 1688–d.
Envoy to Sweden 1689 – 92; one of the lds. justices [I] 1693 – 95; comptroller of army accounts 1703–d.
Parlimentarian
Main residence: Battlesden, Beds.
Volume
Commons 1660-1690
Web Title
DUNCOMBE, William (c.1647-1704)
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