Social Victorians/People/Duncombe

Also Known As

 * Family name: Duncombe
 * Duncombe is also the family name of the Earl of Feversham and Viscount Helmsley.

Timeline
1876 December 5, Alfred Charles Duncombe and Lady Florence Montagu married.

1897 July 2, Friday, Lady Florence Duncombe and Mr. Alfred Duncombe attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball at Devonshire House.

Costume at the Duchess of Devonshire's 2 July 1897 Fancy-dress Ball
Lady Florence Duncombe (at 456) and Alfred Duncombe (at 454) — called Mr. and Lady F. Duncombe — attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball.

Lady Florence Duncombe went, according to the Gentlewoman, as an "Elizabethan Court lady," wearing "black silk velvet, white quilted satin studded with pearls."

Elliott & Fry's portrait of "Lady Anne Florence Adelaide Duncombe (née Montagu) as a Lady of the Court of Marie Stuart" in costume is photogravure #258 in the album presented to the Duchess of Devonshire and now in the National Portrait Gallery. The printing on the portrait says, "Lady Florence Duncombe as a Lady of the Court of Marie Stuart."

This portrait was not taken at the ball or in a photographer's studio using sets and props. It looks like it was taken in someone's home.

Alicia Duncombe
Lady Alicia Duncombe (at 453) came dressed as a Greek Slave and walked in the "Oriental" procession.

Demographics

 * Nationality: British

Residences

 * Calwich Abbey

Family

 * Alfred Charles Duncombe (5 June 1843 – 22 February 1925)
 * Lady Florence (Anne Florence Adelaide) Montagu ( – 16 January 1940)

Relations

 * Lady Anne Duncombe's father was John William Montagu, 7th Earl of Sandwich.
 * Her mother was Lady Mary Paget.

Other Duncombes

 * Lady Alicia Duncombe (at 453)

Questions and Notes

 * 1) Mystery: Alicia Duncombe is still unaccounted for, might belong on the Feversham page or the Helmsley page. Or perhaps the two newspapers made the same mistake and have the wrong name?