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On the death of Anthony Baron Feversham 18 April 1763 the barony became extinct, and his estate devolved on his two coheiresses, the above Frances Duncombe and her half-sister, Anne Daughter of Baron Feversham by his third wife (Anne, daughter of Sir Thomas Hales.) The Dowager Lady Feversham married secondly (as his third wife), 25 July 1765, William, 1st Earl or Radnor, about 1775 the Hon Frances Duncombe was betrothed to Jacob the eldest son of the 1st Earl of Radnor by his first wife, It is said (see "Catalogue of Pictures in the Collection of the Earl of Radnor," 1909, Vol. 11, p. 84) that her finance, Jacob, the Viscount Folkestone, intercepted a letter to her from a Mr. Arabin and that while the family were finning together in Grosvenor Street, London, Lord Radnor handed her the letter, saying "What is the meaning of this, what have I or my son done to you that you should treat us in this manner, Miss Duncombe>" She fainted and was turned out of the house, and the engagement was broken off. On 2 January 1777, Jacob, 2nd Earl of Radnor, married his discarded finance's half-sister, the Hon. Anne Duncombe, and thus became his step-mother's son-in-law. The Hon. Frances Duncombe is said to have lived at one time under the protection of an Elector of some German State,