| 词条 | Charles Duncombe (English banker) |
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Sir Charles Duncombe (16 November 1648 – 9 April 1711)[1] was an English banker and politician who served as a Member of Parliament and Lord Mayor of London. Duncombe was apprenticed to the London goldsmith Edward Backwell and became in due course a member of the Goldsmiths' Company. Under both Charles II and James II he was Receiver of the Customs, and made a fortune in banking; later in life he was said to be worth £400,000, and died the richest commoner in England. When James II fled the country in 1688, Duncombe refused him a loan of £1,500 to aid his escape. Duncombe was elected to Parliament in 1685, and represented Hedon, Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) and Downton, supporting the Tories.[2][3] During this period he opposed the establishment of the Bank of England. In 1694 he bought the 40,000 acre Helmsley estate, now Duncombe Park. In 1698, Duncombe was arrested and imprisoned in the Tower of London, and subsequently expelled from the House of Commons, for "contriving and advising the making of false Indorsements of several Bills, made forth at the Receipt of Exchequer, commonly called Exchequer-Bills", in other words a tax fraud. However, when tried he was acquitted through a mistake in the information, and he was knighted on 20 October 1699. He was later also re-elected to the Commons for his old constituency.[3] Duncombe also served as alderman for Broad Street ward in the City of London from 1683 to 1686 (from which he was discharged by Royal Commission) and for Bridge Within ward from 1700 until his death. He was Sheriff of the City in 1700, and Lord Mayor in 1708.[4] He was to have had a publicly performed pageant for his, but it was stopped by the death of Prince George of Denmark the day before.[5] Duncombe's brother, Anthony Duncombe, who was also MP for Hedon, died before him. His nephew and heir, also called Anthony, was later ennobled as Lord Feversham. His sister Ursula Duncombe inherited half of Duncombe's fortune and was the ancestor of the present-day Barons Feversham. References1. ^http://www.twickenham-museum.org.uk/detail.php?aid=63&ctid=1&cid=17 2. ^{{cite web| url = http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/duncombe-charles-1648-1711| title= DUNCOMBE, Charles (1648-1711), of Lombard Street, London and Teddington, Mdx.| publisher= History of Parliament Online (1660-1690) | accessdate = 16 January 2019}} 3. ^1 {{cite web| url = http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/duncombe-charles-1648-1711| title= DUNCOMBE, Charles (1648-1711), of Teddington, Mdx. Barford, Wilts.| publisher= History of Parliament Online (1690-1715)| accessdate = 16 January 2019}} 4. ^{{cite web |url = http://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/london-aldermen/hen3-1912/pp75-119 |title= 'Chronological list of aldermen: 1651-1700', in The Aldermen of the City of London Temp. Henry III - 1912 (London, 1908), pp. 75-119. | author= Alfred P Beaven |publisher= British History Online| accessdate = 10 December 2018 }} 5. ^{{cite web |url = http://www.british-history.ac.uk/old-new-london/vol1/pp396-416 |title= 'The Lord Mayors of London', in Old and New London: Volume 1 (London, 1878), pp. 396-416. | author= Walter Thornbury |publisher= British History Online| accessdate = 16 January 2019}}
| title=Member of Parliament for Hedon | years=1685–1687 | with=Henry Guy | before=Henry Guy William Boynton | after=Henry Guy Matthew Appleyard (younger) }}{{succession box | title=Member of Parliament for Yarmouth | years=1690–1695 | with=Sir John Trevor 1690–95 | with2=Henry Holmes 1695 | before=Sir Robert Holmes Hon. Fitton Gerard | after=Henry Holmes Anthony Morgan }}{{succession box | title=Member of Parliament for Downton | years=1695–1698 | with=Sir Charles Raleigh | before=Sir Charles Raleigh Maurice Bocland | after=Sir Charles Raleigh Maurice Bocland }}{{succession box | title=Member of Parliament for Downton | years=1702–1707 | with=Sir James Ashe 1702–05 | with2=John Eyre 1705–07 | before=Sir James Ashe Carew Raleigh | after=Parliament of Great Britain }}{{s-par|gb}}{{succession box | title=Member of Parliament for Downton | years=1707–1711 | with=John Eyre 1707–11 | before=Parliament of England | after=John Eyre Thomas Duncombe }}{{s-civ}}{{succession box | title= Lord Mayor of London | before= Sir William Withers| after= Sir Samuel Garrard, Bt| years=1708–1709}}{{s-end}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Duncombe, Charles}}{{England-pre1707-MP-stub}}{{England-GreatBritain-MP-stub}}{{England-mayor-stub}} 16 : 1648 births|1711 deaths|Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies|Sheriffs of the City of London|18th-century Lord Mayors of London|Place of birth missing|Place of death missing|British MPs 1707–08|British MPs 1708–10|British MPs 1710–13|Duncombe family|English MPs 1685–1687|English MPs 1690–1695|English MPs 1695–1698|English MPs 1702–1705|English MPs 1705–1707 |
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