Thomas Duncombe (c.1683–1746) of Duncombe Park, Yorks was a British Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons in two parliaments between 1711 and 1741 Duncombe was born Thomas Browne, the only son of Thomas Browne, merchant, of St Margaret's, Westminster and his wife Ursula Duncombe, daughter of Alexander Duncombe of Drayton, Buckinghamshire. His father was involved with his uncle, the banker

Sir Charles Duncombe Sir Charles Duncombe (1648 – 9 April 1711) of Teddington, Middlesex and Barford, Wiltshire, was an English banker and Tory politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1685 and 1711. He served as Lord Mayor of London f ...

, in making government loans in the reign of Charles II and continued to do so on his own after 1690, lending various sums.. He matriculated at

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on 27 April 1703, aged 19 and was admitted at

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in 1709. In 1711 he succeeded to the Yorkshire estates, of his uncle Sir Charles Duncombe and assumed the name of Duncombe. He married Sarah Slingsby, daughter of Sir Thomas Slingsby, 4th Baronet, of Scriven, Yorkshire on 18 August 1714. Duncombe was returned unopposed as

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for Downton in a by-election on 9 May 1711 in succession to his late uncle. He was acting as a stop-gap for the rest of that Parliament and was probably a Tory like the rest of his family. He is not recorded as having voted in any of the divisions during his time in Parliament but it is not possible to distinguish his contributions from those of other Duncombes. He did not stand for Parliament at the

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. Duncombe succeeded to the estates of his father in 1720. He was High Sheriff of Yorkshire for the year 1727 to 1728. At the

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, he was returned as MP for

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by John Aislabie, whose daughter had married his brother-in-law,

Sir Henry Slingsby, 5th Baronet Sir Henry Slingsby, 5th Baronet (c. 1693 – 1763) of Scriven was a British landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons for 41 years between 1714 and 1763. Slingsby was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Slingsby, 4th Baronet and his wife ...

. He voted against the Administration, was not asked to stand at the

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, Duncombe died on 23 March 1746 leaving three sons and two daughters. His eldest son,

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also became a British politician

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Duncombe, Thomas 1680s births 1746 deaths Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies British MPs 1710–1713 British MPs 1734–1741 High Sheriffs of Yorkshire