Robert Digby, 3rd Baron Digby (30 April 1654 – 29 December 1677), was an

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and English Member of Parliament. Digby was the son of

Kildare Digby, 2nd Baron Digby Kildare Digby, 2nd Baron Digby (c. 1627 – 11 July 1661), was an Irish nobleman. Kildare was a minor when he succeeded his father, Robert Digby, 1st Baron Digby, in 1642. Upon the English Restoration, he sat in the Irish House of Lords in the P ...

, and Mary Gardiner. In 1661, aged 7, he succeeded his father as third

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. Mary did not remarry, and arranged for the education of her children by a clergyman, William Rawlins. He matriculated at

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, on 6 November 1670, travelled on the Continent from 1673 to 1676, and received his

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on 11 July 1676. When Fulke Greville, 5th Baron Brooke, succeeded to the peerage in 1677 and vacated his seat for

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, he supported Digby to succeed him at the ensuing by-election, which occurred in May, without opposition. Digby was also appointed a commissioner of assessment for

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. He was accounted a member of the Country Party, but never took his seat, as he died on 29 December of that year. Digby was buried at the family estate of

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, and was succeeded by his younger brother

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Digby, Robert Digby, 3rd Baron 1654 births 1677 deaths Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford English MPs 1661–1679

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