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DIGGES, WEST, son of Col. Thomas Digges, Chilham Castle, Kent, and Hon. Elizabeth West, dau. of John West, 6th Baron De La Warr; b.; adm. (aged 11) Jun 1737; left 1740; Ensign, Col. Long’s Regt. Foot 26 Jan 1741; Col. O’Farrell’s Regt. Foot 25 Jun 1744; made his first appearance on the stage as Jaffier in Venice Preserved at the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, 27 Nov 1749 (The Orrery Papers, 1903, ii, 63); although he had a wife still living, Digges went through a ceremony of marriage with the well-known actress George Anne Bellamy; acted in Scotland under the name of Bellamy 1763; at Florence, Italy Dec 1767; played Cato at the Haymarket Theatre 1777 and Sir John Brute in The Provoked Wife at Covent Garden 1778; Wolsey in Shakespeare’s Henry VIII appears to have been his best character, but in London he made no great reputation; went to live in Ireland 1781; m. [apparently c. 3 Mar 1746 Mary Wakeling (IGI)]; d. at Cork, Ireland 10 Nov 1786. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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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.