Louisa Duncombe, was the wife of John Scott, 2nd Earl of Eldon.
[2] She was the daughter of Charles Duncombe, 1st Baron Feversham, by his wife, the former Lady Charlotte Legge.
She married the earl on 1 October 1831,[3] some years prior to his succeeding his grandfather in the earldom, when he was known as Viscount Encombe.
[4] They had a stillborn son in 1832[5] before successfully parenting a further seven children: In the period of their marriage, parts of the Eldon estate were sold off for industrial purposes, notably for the building of the Clarence Railway and Little Chilton Colliery.
[10] A few months later, Lord Eldon was found by a "Commission of Lunacy" to be of unsound mind.