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Charles Duncombe (
28 July 1792 –
1 October 1867) was a leader in the
Upper Canada Rebellion in 1837.
He was born in
Connecticut and became a doctor in 1819. He then settled in
Upper Canada, and in 1824 he established the first medical school in Upper Canada, in
St. Thomas, under the patronage of Colonel
Thomas Talbot. Duncombe was a
Freemason, serving as first master of the Mount Moriah lodge at Westminster; in 1836, he set up a grand lodge independent from the British lodges and became its first grand master. In 1828 he was elected to the
Legislative Assembly as a representative for
London. He was originally a Reformer in the same vein as
Robert Baldwin, but was attracted by
William Lyon Mackenzie's more radical reform movement. In 1836 he travelled to
Britain to argue the case for reform in Canada, but he was unsuccessful.
In December 1837, Duncombe heard reports of Mackenzie's rebellion in
Toronto. Duncombe, with
Robert Alway, Finlay Malcolm,
Eliakim Malcolm, and
Joshua Doan, gathered about 200 men on
8 December and marched towards Toronto; this is sometimes known as the
Western Rising. A few hundred more rebels joined them on their march, but they dispersed near
Hamilton on
13 December when they learned of Mackenzie's defeat, and that a militia under Colonel
Allan MacNab was on their way to stop them. Duncombe and Eliakim Malcolm fled to the United States; Duncombe remained there for the rest of his life, despite being pardoned in 1843. Joshua Doan was executed in 1839.
Duncombe moved to
Sacramento County, California in 1849, and established a Masonic lodge in
Sacramento in 1852. In 1859, he was elected to the
California State Assembly as one of four members from Sacramento County, but was disqualified because he wasn't an American citizen. He became a citizen and was elected again in 1863 as one of the county's five representatives. He died in
Hicksville, California in 1867 after a severe case of
sunstroke.
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