The Diggs Baronetcy, of

Chilham Castle Chilham Castle is a Jacobean manor house and keep in the village of Chilham, between Ashford and Canterbury in the county of Kent, England. The keep is of Norman origin and dates to 1174; the manor house was completed in 1616 for Sir Dudley Di ...

in the County of Kent, was a title in the

Baronetage of England Baronets are a rank in the British aristocracy. The current Baronetage of the United Kingdom has replaced the earlier but existing Baronetages of England, Nova Scotia, Ireland, and Great Britain. Baronetage of England (1611–1705) King James I ...

. It was created on 6 March 1665 for Maurice Diggs. He was the grandson of

Sir Dudley Digges Sir Dudley Digges (19 May 1583 – 18 March 1639) was an English diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1610 and 1629. Digges was also a "Virginia adventurer," an investor who ventured his capital in the Virginia ...

, Master of the Rolls from 1636 to 1639, and the great-grandson of Sir Thomas Digges, the astronomer and mathematician. The title became extinct on Diggs's death in 1666.

Marriage and issue

He married first Beunet, daughter of Mark Dixwell, esq. of Folkestone and Brome, in Kent, and secondly Judith, daughter and co-heir of George Rose, esq. of Eastergate, Sussex, but dying in 1666, the title became extinct.

Diggs baronets, of Chilham Castle (1666)

*Sir Maurice Diggs, 1st Baronet (c. 1638–1666)

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Diggs Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of England 1666 establishments in England