DUNCH, Edmund (?1677-1719), of Little Wittenham, Berks. and Down Ampney, Glos.

b. ?1677,Not 1657, as in ped.; cf. Wood’s Life and Times (Oxf. Hist. Soc.), ii. 500; Hearne, Colls. (Oxf. Hist. Soc.), vii. 17; Vis. Berks. 1665 (Harl. Soc. lvi), 197. o.s. of Hungerford Dunch, M.P., of Little Wittenham and Down Ampney by Catherine,Foster, London Marriage Lics. 426. da. of William Oxton of Herts. m. 2 May 1702, Elizabeth, maid of honour to Queen Anne, da. and coh. of Col. Charles Godfrey, M.P., master of the jewel office, by Arabella, da. of Sir Winston Churchill, M.P., sis. of John, 1st Duke of Marlborough, and mistress to James II, 4da. suc. fa. 1680.