Family
In 1833, Combe married Cecilia Siddons, a daughter of the actress Sarah Siddons, and sister of Henry Siddons, the author of the Practical Illustrations of Rhetorical Gesture and Action (1807). She brought him a fortune, as well as a happy marriage (preceded by a phrenological check for compatibility); a few years later he retired from work as a lawyer, in comfortable circumstances.
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