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John Duncombe may refer to:
- John Duncombe (Bury St Edmunds MP) (1622–1687), English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer
- John Duncombe (writer) (1729–1786), Church of England clergyman and writer
- John Duncombe (Yarmouth MP), represented Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) (UK Parliament constituency)
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Wim van der Meij • Link
Also he was M.P. for Bury St. Edmunds.
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Sir John Duncomb, a pensioner of 2000l. per annum; in boons 20,000l.
---A Seasonable Argument ... for a New Parliament. Andrew Marvell, [1677] 1776.
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Sir John Duncombe was the son of Sir Edward Duncombe of Battlesden. He was knighted by Charles I. while the king was a prisoner at Carisbrooke Castle. He was M.P. for Bury St. Edmunds in the parliaments of 166o and 1661, and was appointed a Commissioner of the Treasury in 1667. In 1672 he became, on the resignation of Ashley, Chancellor of the Exchequer. Burnet describes him as "a judicious man, but very haughty, and apt to raise enemies. He was an able Parliament man, but could not go into all the designs of the Court; for he had a sense of religion and a zeal for the liberty of his country" ("Own Time," vol. i., p. 437, ed. 1833).
--- Wheatley. Diary, 1904.