Philip Bury Duncan (1772-1863)
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.
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.