Colonel the Honourable Hubert Ernest Valentine Duncombe, DSO (14 February 1862 - 21 October 1918) was a British soldier and politician who served as the Conservative MP for Egremont from 1895 to 1900.
He was educated at Harrow School, the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and Magdalene College, Cambridge.
He volunteered for active service in the Second Boer War in February 1900,[11] and was commissioned a captain in the 14th battalion Imperial Yeomanry, leaving Southampton for South Africa in early April 1900 on the SS Carisbrooke Castle.
[12] He served as the adjutant of the battalion, commanded by his fellow MP, Arthur Montagu Brookfield, and was promoted to major on 15 September 1900.
[13] In 1913, he was implicated in a fraud by Edmund Eaton, who had promoted an oil company as though it were endorsed by a Royal Commission; Duncombe was a director of the company, but resigned his directorship immediately and the charges against him were dismissed.