Background
Feversham was the eldest son of Charles Duncombe, 2nd Earl of Feversham, and his wife Lady Marjorie Blanche Eva, daughter of Francis Greville, 5th Earl of Warwick, and was educated at Eton.
Feversham was the eldest son of Charles Duncombe, 2nd Earl of Feversham, and his wife Lady Marjorie Blanche Eva, daughter of Francis Greville, 5th Earl of Warwick, and was educated at Eton.
Eton College.
He succeeded in the earldom in 1916, aged only nine, when his father was killed in the First World War. He later took his seat on the Conservative benches in the House of Lords and served under Ramsay Macdonald and Stanley Baldwin as a Lord-in-Waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) from 1934 to 1936 and under Baldwin and later Neville Chamberlain as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and Deputy Minister of Fisheries from 1936 to 1939. He was Treasurer of the University of Leeds from 1959 to his death.
Lord Feversham married Lady Anne Dorothy Wood, daughter of East. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, in 1936.
They had one daughter:
Lady Clarissa Duncombe, Doctor of Laws (born 11 October 1938)
Feversham died in September 1963, aged 56. The Countess of Feversham was made an Administration Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1950 and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1979.
She died in 1995.