Philip Bury Duncan

(1772-1863)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Duncan, Philip Bury, 1772-1863 DNB: Duncan, Philip Bury (1772–1863), museum curator LBT ID: PhDunca1863 VIAF ID: 65522410 LOC ID: n87153012	B/BAP: 1772 DIED: 1863-11-12
SOURCES: Gentleman's Magazine (January 1864) 122-26; DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Banker and philanthropist educated at Winchester College (where Sydney Smith was a classmate), New College, Oxford, and Lincoln's Inn; in 1829 he succeeded his brother John Shute Duncan as keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. He was an intimate friend of Bishop Richard Mant.
REFERENCES TO Philip Bury Duncan: Saba Holland, A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Chapter III Found 1: ¶ 2