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 1583 - 1639 (56 years)
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| Name |
Dudley DIGGES |
| Prefix |
Sir |
| Born |
1583 |
Chilham Castle, Chilham, Kent, England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
18 Mar 1638/1639 |
Chilham Castle, Chilham, Kent, England |
| Buried |
Chilham, Kent, England |
| Person ID |
I1581 |
Young Kent Ancestors |
| Last Modified |
12 Jun 2013 |
| Father |
Thomas DIGGES, b. Wootton, Kent, England , d. 1595, Digges Court, Wootton, Kent, England |
| Mother |
Anne ST. LEGER, b. 1555, Ulcombe, Kent, England , d. 1636 (Age 81 years) |
| Family ID |
F557 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Mary KEMP |
| Children |
| | 1. Anne DIGGES, b. Jul 1616, Chilham Castle, Chilham, Kent, England , bur. 25 Oct 1664, Nonington, Kent, England (Age ~ 48 years) |
| | 2. Thomas DIGGES, d. 1687 |
| | 3. John DIGGES, b. of Faversham, Kent, England |
| | 4. Dudley DIGGES, b. 1613, Chilham, Kent, England , d. 1 Oct 1643, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England (Age 30 years) |
| | 5. Edward DIGGES, d. Of Virginia, United States of America |
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| Last Modified |
20 Mar 2022 |
| Family ID |
F524 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Master of the Rolls
Sir Dudley Digges, Statesman, was the eldest son of Thomas Digges. He was born in 1583, Wood thinks "in the parish of Derham, in which Digges Court is situated." He was educated at University College, and subsequently entered at one of the Inns of Court. After much experience gained by travel, he entered the service of his county in Parliament, where his conduct was distinguished by sound judgment and inflexible independence. In 1618, being knighted, he was sent on an Embassy to Russia, and two years afterwards to Holland. In 1631 he obtained a reversionary grant of the Mastership of the Rolls, to which office he succeeded in 1636. He died three years later, 1639. He published a "Defence of Trade," a "Discourse of the Rights and Privileges of the Subject," and many speeches and letters.
[See "Wood's Athenae Oxon.," by Bliss, "Hasted's Kent," "Foss's Judges," "Allibone's Dictionary of Authors."]
Source: Men of Kent and Kentish Men, pp. 40-41
http://ia351404.us.archive.org/2/items/menkentandkenti00hutcgoog/menkentandkenti00hutcgoog.pdf
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