Kenelm Digby

Bef 1518 - 1590  (> 72 years)

• Name	Kenelm Digby
  Birth	Bef 1518	of Stoke Dry, Rutland, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	21 Apr 1590  [1]
  Burial	Stoke Dr, Rutland, England   [1]
  Person ID	I17723	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	14 Sep 2018

  
  

  Father	Everard Digby,   b. Bef 1472, of Tilton, Leicestershire, England d. 11 Apr 1540 (Age > 68 years)
  Mother	Margery Heydon
  Marriage	Bef 1518  [1]
  Family ID	F10885	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Anne Cope   d. Aft 1591
  Children	+ 1. Everard Digby   d. 1592
  Family ID	F10886	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Sep 2018

  
  

• Notes

  Knight of the shire for Stamford, 1539, and for Rutland in 1545, 1547, Mar 1553, Oct 1553, 1555, 1558, 1559, 1571, 1572, and 1584. Educated at Brasenose College, Oxford and at the Middle Temple. Sheriff of Rutland 1541-42, 1549-50, 1553-54, 1561-62, 1567-68, 1575-76, and 1585-86. "Whatever knowledge of the law Digby had acquired at the Middle Temple, an inn with which he retained a connexion for many years, was put to both public and private use: regularly named to commissions of oyer and terminer for the midlands, he was also consulted on legal matters by his friends and relatives, for whom he often acted as a feoffee. It was perhaps his legal bent which in 1572 prompted his demand to see the 3rd Earl of Huntingdon’s patent of lieutenancy before acknowledging Huntingdon’s standing in the county, a piece of officiousness which incensed the earl. With so ardent a Puritan as Huntingdon, however, Digby can have felt little at ease: in 1564 he was reported to be ‘indifferent’ in religion but towards the end of his life he was described as unsound in faith and one of his sons was a notable Catholic." [History of Parliament]

  
  

• Sources

  [S47] The History of Parliament. Some citations point to entries from the printed volumes not yet added to the online site.