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Wingfield-Digby, George Digby, 1797-1883
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Dates of existence
1797-1883
History
WINGFIELD-DIGBY, GEORGE DIGBY, eldest son of William Wingfield KC MP (afterwards Wingfield-Baker), Orsett Hall, Essex, barrister, Master in Chancery, and his first wife Lady Charlotte Mary Digby, dau. of Henry Digby, 1st Earl Digby (qv); b. 1 Jun 1797; adm. 13 Jun 1808; in school list 1813; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 14 Apr 1815, aged 17; BA 1819; adm. Inner Temple, called to bar 10 Jul 1821; assumed additional surname of Digby 2 Jul 1856, on inheriting the Sherborne Castle and Coleshill estates of his uncle Edward Digby, 2nd Earl Digby (qv); High Sheriff, Dorset 1860; m. 26 May 1824 Lucy Mabella, eldest dau. of Edward Berkeley Portman, Bryanston, Dorset; d. 7 May 1883.
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GB 2014
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.