John Kenelm Digby Wingfield Digby (2 September 1859 – 25 December 1904) was an English landowner and

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. His name is often given as Wingfield-Digby, but the family does not use the hyphen.

Life

Memorial to John Kenelm Digby Wingfield 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

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, he lived at Coleshill Park, Warwickshire, and

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, Dorset, another family seat. First elected at a by-election in Mid Somerset in March 1885, Wingfield Digby's seat was abolished with effect from the election of December 1885. He went on to represent

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between the election of 1892 and his death in 1904.''Burke's Landed Gentry'' vol. 1 (1965), p. 207 On 13 December 1883 Wingfield Digby married firstly Georgiana Rosamund Hewitt, a daughter of

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, and Lydia Lucy Wingfield Digby, in

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. 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. 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).

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