{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Use British English|date=August 2016}} '''John Halcomb''' (later '''Halcombe''', 1790 – 3 November 1852)<ref name="rayment-hc">{{Rayment-hc|d|3|date=January 2010}}</ref> was an English serjeant-at-law, and a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Dover between 1833 and 1835.<ref name="craig1832-1885">{{cite book |last=Craig |first=F. W. S. |author-link= F. W. S. Craig |title=British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 |orig-date=1977 |edition= 2nd |year=1989 |publisher= Parliamentary Research Services |location=Chichester |isbn= 0-900178-26-4 |page=113 }}</ref> Of several written works, his most significant was ''A Practical Treatise of Passing Private Bills through both Houses of Parliament'' (1836).

Halcomb, who was later known as Halcombe, married Margaret Birch. Their fifth child, Arthur Halcombe, went to New Zealand as an immigration agent under William Fox.<ref name="DNZB Halcombe">{{DNZB|Swainson|G. M.|2h2|Arthur William Follett Halcombe|14 March 2014}}<!-- right now, the DNZB URLs are broken, even on their own website; for the time being, see: http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/2h2/halcombe-arthur-william-follett --></ref> The daughter of his brother William, Sarah Holcomb, was the wife of William Fox.<ref name="DNZB Fox">{{DNZB|last1=Sinclair |first1=Keith | last2=Dalziel |first2=Raewyn |id=1f15|title=Fox, William |accessdate=27 April 2020|author-link1=Keith Sinclair |author-link2= Raewyn Dalziel}}</ref>

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