William Duncombe, Viscount Helmsley, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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About William Duncombe, Viscount Helmsley
- William Reginald Duncombe, Viscount Helmsley (1 August 1852 – 24 December 1881), was a British Conservative Party politician. Helmsley was the son of William Duncombe, 1st Earl of Feversham, and his wife Mabel Violet, daughter of Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet.
- He was elected to the House of Commons as one of two representatives for the North Riding of Yorkshire in the 1874 general election, a seat he held until his death seven years later.Lord Helmsley married the seventeen-year-old Lady Muriel Frances Louisa, daughter of Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 19th Earl of Shrewsbury, in 1876.
- They had one son and one daughter.
- Lady Mabel Theresa Duncombe (1877–1913) who married Sir Gervase Beckett, 1st Bt as his first wife in 1895.
- He later remarried her sister-in-law Lady Feversham in 1917). Charles William Reginald Duncombe, 2nd Earl of Feversham (1879–1916)He died in December 1881, at Madeira, aged only 29.
- His son Charles later succeeded in the earldom.
- Lady Helmsley later remarried in 1885, and died in March 1925.
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