Thomas Slingsby Duncombe
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Thomas Slingsby Duncombe (1796 - November 13th 1861, Lancing) was a Radical politician, who was member of parliament for Hertford from 1826 to 1832 and for Finsbury from 1834 until his death.
Duncombe defended Lord Durham's administration of Canada; he sought to obtain the release of John Frost and other Chartists, whose immense petition he presented to parliament in 1842; and he interested himself in the affairs of Charles II, the deposed duke of Brunswick. He showed a practical sympathy with Mazzini, whose letters had been opened by order of the English government, by urging for an inquiry into this occurrence; and also with Kossuth.
Duncombe was an advocate of Jewish emancipation.
See Life and Correspondence of T. S. Duncombe, edited by T. H. Duncombe (1868).
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