George Digby MP (1550 - 1586)

Born 4 Nov 1550 in Coleshill, Warwickshire, England

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Died 4 Feb 1586 at age 35 in Coleshill, Warwickshire, England

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Biography

George was born on 4 November 1550, the son of John Digby and his wife, Anne Throckmorton. His father died in November 1558 and George was made a ward of Sir Francis Knollys. He was educated at Middle Temple and entered Parliament as MP For Warwickshire in 1572.

He married Abigail Heveningham, daughter of Sir Arthur Heveningham of [[1] in Norfolk who bore him at least three sons and a daughter.

In 1586, having made his will in April, he volunteered for service in the Netherlands carrying messages between Walsingham and the Earl of Leicester. He served at the Battle of Zutphen on 22 September, was knighted by Leicester,^[1] and witnessed the will of Sir Philip Sidney ^[2] who had been mortally wounded in the battle and who died at Arnhem of gangrene some three weeks later.

George died in 1586 ^[3] He was buried at Coleshill and has a monument to himself and his wife Abigail in the Church of St. Peter & St Paul at Coleshill.^[4]

Marriage and Issue

George married Abigail, daughter of Sir Arthur de Heveningham, of Ketteringham in Norfolk.

1. George Digby died young,
2. Sir Robert Digby (1574 - 1618) who succeeded his father and m.Lettice Fitzgerald - Issue ^[5]
3. Phillip Digby;
4. John Digby (1580 - 1653) created Earl of Bristol m. Beatrice Walcott daughter Charles Walcot of Walcot in Shropshire as her 2nd Husband ^[6] & ^[7]
5. Elizabeth Digby who married Sir Baldwin Wake, Knight-Baronet.^[8]

Sources

1. ↑ Lodge, Archdall, p. 274, amb
2. ↑ History of Parliament online: George Digby
3. ↑ David L. Smith, ‘Digby, John, first earl of Bristol (1580–1653)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2015 accessed 3 Sept 2017. This is a subscription site but access is free to readers of British libraries whose library subscribes.
4. ↑ The Digby Monuments
5. ↑ History of Parliament online: Robert Digby
6. ↑ accessed 3 Sept 2017; David L. Smith, ‘Digby, John, first earl of Bristol (1580–1653)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2015 This is a subscription site but access is free to readers of British libraries whose library subscribes.
7. ↑ [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Digby,_John Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 15 Digby, John by Samuel Rawson Gardiner]
8. ↑ Lodge, Archdall, p. 274, amb

• The Peerage of Ireland: or a Genealogical History of the Present Nobility of that Kingdom. pp. 273-275. (Google eBook). John Lodge, Mervin Archdall. 1789 amb

• http://www.holmesacourt.org/hac/3/5782.htm

• History of Parliament online: George Digby

• The Peerage Sir George of Colshill Digby

• Throckmorton, Charles Wickliffe. A Genealogical and Historical Account of the Throckmorton Family in England and the United States (Old Dominion Press, Inc., Richmond, Va., 1930) Page 108
• Visitation of Warwickshire Page 17: Digbie