 The Marsden-Duncan feud, as well as the long legal, political, and personal struggle between Duncan and William Ridley, the Anglican bishop in charge of northern British Columbia, intersected, most notoriously, with charges of sexual misconduct against Duncan, charges which have severely tainted his historical reputation, though he was never convicted or punished, and the charge was later concluded to be slander by the Commission of Indian Affairs.He also managed to make an enemy of the medical missionary Robert Tomlinson, an Anglican who had served under him in B.C.and been an ally in his dissent from the CMS.