John Kenelm Digby Wingfield Digby (2 September 1859 – 25 December 1904) was an English landowner and Conservativemember of parliament. His name is often given as Wingfield-Digby, but the family does not use the hyphen.
Life
Wingfield Digby was born at Blythe Hall, Coleshill, Warwickshire, the son of Captain John Digby Wingfield Digby and Maria Madan. A Justice of the Peace, he lived at Coleshill Park, Warwickshire, and Sherborne Castle, Dorset, another family seat.
On 13 December 1883 Wingfield Digby married firstly Georgiana Rosamund Hewitt, a daughter of James Hewitt, 4th Viscount Lifford, and Lydia Lucy Wingfield Digby, in County Donegal. 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.[1]
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).[1]
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