Anthony Duncombe, 1st Baron Feversham (c. 1695 – 18 June 1763), was a British landowner and politician who sat in the

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from 1727 until 1747 when he was raised to the

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Baron Feversham Baron Feversham is a title that has been created twice, once in the Peerage of Great Britain and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The first creation, in the Peerage of Great Britain, came in 1747 when Anthony Duncombe, who had earli ...

. Duncombe was the son of

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and Jane Cornwallis, daughter of Frederick Cornwallis, younger son of

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. In 1721 he succeeded to half of the enormous estates of his uncle, Sir Charles Duncombe.thepeerage.com Anthony Duncombe, 1st and last Lord Feversham, Baron of Downton
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for

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at a by-election on 6 May 1721. He retained the seat in the general elections of 1722 and 1727. At the 1734 general election he was returned unopposed as MP for Downton instead and again in

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. He vacated his seat in 1747 when he was raised to the peerage as Lord Feversham, Baron of Downton, in the County of Wilts. Lord Feversham married three times. Firstly to Margaret Verney, daughter of

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, in 1716. There were no children from this marriage. She died in 1755 and was buried in

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with a memorial sculpted by

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.Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851 by Rupert Gunnis After her death in October 1755 he married Frances Bathurst, daughter of Peter Bathurst, in 1756. They had one child, Frances Duncombe (1757–1827). Lady Feversham died shortly after the birth of her daughter. Lord Feversham's third marriage was to Anne Hales, daughter of

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, in 1758. They had one daughter, Anne Duncombe (d. 1829), who married her step-brother

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. Lord Feversham died in June 1763. As he had no sons the barony died with him. Lady Feversham married as her second husband

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. She died in June 1795. The barony was revived in 1826 in favour of Lord Feversham's kinsman

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, a descendant of Feversham's aunt Ursula Duncombe, who had inherited the other half of Sir Charles Duncombe's fortune.

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