Augustus Duncombe

Augustus Duncombe (2 November 1814 – 26 January 1880) was Dean of York from 1858[1] until his death.

[2] Duncombe was born the seventh child and fifth son of Charles Duncombe, 1st Baron Feversham, and educated at Worcester College, Oxford.

[3] He was Rector of Kirby Misperton, then Prebendary of Bole, before his appointment as Dean.

[5] Duncombe married, on 13 May 1841, Lady Harriet Christian Douglas,[6] the second child of Charles Douglas, 6th Marquess of Queensberry, and founder, in 1870, of York's St Stephen's Orphanage.

[7] Lady Harriet died in London on 26 July 1902, at the age of 93.