Monday, July 1, 2019

John Wingfield Digby

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'''John Kenelm Digby Wingfield Digby''' (2 September 1859 – 25 December 1904) was an English [[landed gentry|landowner]] and Conservative [[member of parliament]]. His name is often given as '''Wingfield-Digby''', but the family does not use the hyphen.
==Life==
[[File:Memorial to John Kenelm Digby Wingfield Digby in Sherborne Abbey.JPG|thumb|Memorial to Digby in [[Sherborne Abbey]]]]
Wingfield Digby was born at Blythe Hall, Coleshill, Warwickshire, the son of Captain John Digby Wingfield Digby and Maria Madan. A [[Justice of the Peace]], he lived at Coleshill Park, Warwickshire, and [[Sherborne Castle]], Dorset, another family seat.

First elected at a by-election in [[Mid Somerset (UK Parliament constituency)|Mid Somerset]] in March 1885, Wingfield Digby represented [[North Dorset (UK Parliament constituency)|North Dorset]] between the [[1892 United Kingdom general election|election of 1892]] and his death in 1904.<ref name=BLG>''Burke's Landed Gentry'' vol. 1 (1965), p. 207</ref>

On 13 December 1883 Wingfield Digby married firstly Georgiana Rosamund Hewitt, a daughter of [[James Hewitt, 4th Viscount Lifford]], and Lydia Lucy Wingfield Digby, in [[County Donegal]]. On 12 December 1888, his father died, and he inherited landed properties. In 1890 he married secondly Charlotte Kathleen Digby, a daughter of William John Digby and Sara Rebecca Le Poer Trench, at Paddington.<ref name=BLG/>

With his first wife, Wingfield Digby had three children, Lydia Mary (1884–1887), Frederick James Bosworth (born 1885) and Georgina Rosamund Lettice (1887–1888). With his second wife, he had a further five children, Kenelm Essex Digby Bosworth (1891–1972), Kathleen Venetia (1892–1982), Dorothy Charlotte Edith (1894–1918), John Reginald (1896–1988), and Robert Almarus Wingfield Digby (1901–1974).<ref name=BLG/>

==Notes==

==External links==
*[https://ift.tt/2Yn9NmU Mr John Wingfield-Digby] at theyworkforyou.com
*[https://ift.tt/3225C1Z Mr John Wingfield-Digby] at parliament.uk
*[https://ift.tt/2YzBE3r Digby, John Kenelm Digby Wingfield (1859-1904) MP] at nationalarchives.gov.uk


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