Charles Duncombe, 2nd Earl of Feversham

Lieutenant-Colonel Charles William Reginald Duncombe, 2nd Earl of Feversham (8 May 1879 – 15 September 1916), known as Viscount Helmsley from 1881 to 1915, was a British Conservative Party politician and soldier.

[1] His father William, Viscount Helmsley, died in 1881,[2] and so the viscountcy thus passed to Charles Duncombe.

Duncombe was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford, gaining a blue in polo with OUPC.

Charles Duncombe, Lord Feversham, lies in the AIF Burial Ground near the village of Flers on the Somme.

[12] Through his son Charles, he was a grandfather of Lady Clarissa Duncombe (1938-2021), who married, as his second wife, Maj. Nicholas Spencer Compton Collin, of Wytherstone House, Pockley.

Arms of Duncombe: Per chevron engrailed gules and argent, three talbot's heads erased counterchanged