RARE “Radical Dandy\" Thomas Slingsby Duncombe Hand Written Note Dated 1839 For Sale

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RARE “Radical Dandy\" Thomas Slingsby Duncombe Hand Written Note Dated 1839:
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Up for sale a RARE!  "Radical Politician" Thomas Slingsby Duncombe Hand Written Note Dated 1839. 

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Thomas Slingsby Duncombe (1796

– 13 November 1861) was a Radical politician, who

was a member of the Parliament of the to 1832 and for Finsbury from

1834 until his death. Duncombe was a tireless champion of radical causes in the

27 years he served the North East London borough of Finsbury. But he was

equally well known for his style; he was, it was often said, "the

handsomest and best-dressed man in the house," and his love for theatre,

gaming and women were well publicized. Duncombe was elected and then returned to

his seat seven times by the shopkeepers, artisans and laborers, the Nonconformists, Catholics, and Jews of

Finsbury, making him the longest-sitting representative of a metropolitan

borough in his day. His constituents called him "Honest Tom Duncombe"

with great affection; to his detractors he was known as the "Dandy

Demagogue" or the "Radical Dandy". His name was celebrated in

working men’s newspapers and frequently mentioned in the gossip sheets of high

society. Duncombe was, as The Times put it delicately upon his death, a

"character". Duncombe was born wealthy and well-connected in 1796

in Middlesex. His parents, Thomas and Emma Duncombe, had an

estate in the West Riding of Yorkshire.

He was the grandson (on his mother's side) to the Bishop of Peterborough, and nephew to the first Baron Feversham. He

attended Harrow school from

1808 to 1811, leaving to take up a commission in the

elite regiment of the Coldstream Guards. While in the Guards, Duncombe served as

aide-de-camp to General Sir Ronald Ferguson. As Ferguson was well known for supporting the

ballot and other political reforms during his time in Parliament, it is likely

that it was here that Duncombe had his first political awakening as a radical.

After being raised to the rank of Lieutenant, Duncombe resigned from the army in 1819. 

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