Thomas Duncombe (c.1683–1746) of Duncombe Park, Yorks was a British Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons in two parliaments between 1711 and 1741 Duncombe was born Thomas Browne, the only son of Thomas Browne, merchant, of St Margaret's, Westminster and his wife Ursula Duncombe, daughter of Alexander Duncombe of Drayton, Buckinghamshire. His father was involved with his uncle, the banker Sir Charles Duncombe, in making government loans in the reign of Charles II and continued to do so on his own after 1690, lending various sums.. He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford on 27 April 1703, aged 19 and was admitted at Inner Temple in 1709. In 1711 he succeeded to the Yorkshire estates, of his uncle Sir Charles Duncombe and assumed the name of Duncombe. He married Sarah Slingsby, da