UK Elections Info

Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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Baptised: 20 July 1622

Died: 4 March 1687

Knighted - 1648

Member of Privy Council - 22 May 1667

son of William Duncombe

son of Elizabeth Poyntz

husband of Elizabeth May

Eton College (1634 - 1638)

Christ's College, Cambridge (1638 -)

Leyden (1643 -)

Commissioner of the Ordnance	1664	1670
Lord Commissioner of the Treasury (Government Whip)	1667	1672
Chancellor of the Exchequer	1672	1676

9 April 1660		Bury St Edmunds
3 May 1660 Petition - Thomas Chaplin and John Clarke declared elected.
14 May 1660 Petition - Thomas Chaplin and John Clarke unseated and Sir Henry Crofts and Sir John Duncombe declared elected.
1 April 1661		Bury St Edmunds