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Abigail Digby (d 1640), married George Freke of Sherbourne, Dorset (son of John Freke) and bore one son, John. [12] Through her previous marriage, Lady Bristol was the mother of the prominent Royalist Sir Lewis Dyve. Digby was the uncle of Sir Kenelm Digby, [disputed – discuss] English courtier, diplomat and a highly reputed natural philosopher.
John was the third son of Everard Digby, Esq., MP [1] (whose father had died at Towton, 1461) of Tilton on the Hill, Leicestershire and Jacquet, daughter of Sir John Ellys of Devonshire. [ 2 ] Career
Digby was the eldest son of George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol and his wife Lady Anne Russell, daughter of Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford. He was baptised on 26 April 1634. He was educated privately. In July 1660 he became J.P. for Dorset and Somerset and commissioner for oyer and terminer on the Western circuit. He was commissioner for ...
John Digby may refer to: Sir John Digby (died 1533) , Knight Marshal for Henry VIII John Digby (died 1548) (1508–1548), MP for Leicestershire 1539, High Sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicestershire 1539–40
During Raleigh's imprisonment in the Tower, King James leased the estate to Robert Carr and then sold it to Sir John Digby, 1st Earl of Bristol in 1617. In the 1620s, the Digby family added four wings to Sherborne Lodge in an architectural style similar to the original, forming the mansion now known as Sherborne Castle or Sherborne New Castle.
Meanwhile, Newark declared for the king, the local TBs being raised for him by Sir John Digby, Sir Gervase Clifton, 1st Baronet, Robert Sutton of Averham, and a troop of horse under Sir John Byron of Newstead Abbey. (Digby's regiment was taken over by Col Anthony Gilby by the beginning of 1645.) [29] [30] The townspeople and TBs, with a few ...
Sir John Charles Arthur Digby Lawson, DSO, MC, 3rd Baronet (1912–2001) [3] Sir Charles John Patrick Lawson, 4th Baronet (born 1959). Married Lady Caroline Lowther, daughter of James Lowther, 7th Earl of Lonsdale , on 18 September 1987, one daughter and three sons.
Sir Everard Digby (c. 1578 – 30 January 1606) was a member of the group of provincial members of the English nobility who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. . Although he was raised in an Anglican household and married a Protestant, Digby and his wife were secretly received into the strictly illegal and underground Catholic Church in England by the Jesuit priest Fr. Joh