Augustus Duncombe


and Very Rev Augustus Duncombe, DD was Dean of York from 1858 until his death.

Biography

Duncombe was born the seventh child and fifth son of Charles Duncombe, 1st Baron Feversham and educated at Worcester College, Oxford. He was Rector of Kirby Misperton then Prebendary of Bole before his appointment as Dean. During his tenure the approach to York Minster from the south-west was widened by the construction of a spacious approach, which was named Duncombe Place in his honour.

Marriage and children

Duncombe married, on 13 May 1841, Lady Harriet Christian Douglas, the second child of Charles Douglas, 6th Marquess of Queensberry. Lady Harriet Duncombe died in London on 26 July 1902, at the age of 93.
They had two sons: