1060 David Duncan

Constituency : Barrow-in-Furness  1885-6, Liverpool Exchange  1886

David  won  the  new  seat  of  Barrow-in-Furness.

David  was  a  Scottish  manufacturers's  son. He  was  educated  at  Dundee  High  School. He  went  with  his  brother  James  to  South  America  and  traded  there. In  1851  he  became  a  partner  in  the  shipping  firm  Balfour  Williamson. He  extricated  himself  from that  in  1863  and  started  his  own  company  which  also  had  interests  in  mining. He  was  a  director  of  the  Royal  Insurance  Company.

David  was  unseated  on  petition  for  bribery. He  then  contested  and  won  Liverpool  Exchange  in  1886   but  died  in  December  that  year  aged  55.

His  son  James  later  became  MP  for  Barrow.