Essex Digby

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Essex Digby was an English Anglican priest [1] in Ireland in the second half of the seventeenth century. [2]

Digby came from an eminent family. He was the son of Sir Robert Digby of Coleshill, Warwickshire and Lettice FitzGerald, of Geashill, Ireland, granddaughter of Gerald FitzGerald, 11th Earl of Kildare. [3] John Digby, 1st Earl of Bristol, was his uncle, Robert Digby, 1st Baron Digby, his brother and Simon Digby his son. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. [4] He was Dean of Cashel from 1661 until 1671 [5] and Bishop of Dromore from his consecration on 27 February 1671 until his death on 12 May 1683. [6]

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References

  1. Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 348–350. ISBN   0-521-56350-X.
  2. "A New History of Ireland Vol XI: Maps, Genealogies, Lists" by Theodore William Moody, F. X. Martin, Francis John Byrne, Art Cosgrove: Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN   0-19-821745-5
  3. Mosley ed. Burke's Peerage 107th Edition Delaware 2003 Vol.1 p1141
  4. "Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593-1860)" Burtchaell, George Dames/Sadleir, Thomas Ulick (Eds) p225: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
  5. "Fasti ecclesiæ hibernicæ: the succession of the prelates in Ireland" Vol 1 p36 Cotton, H :Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1878
  6. "Fasti ecclesiæ hibernicæ: the succession of the prelates in Ireland" Vol 3 p281/2 Cotton, H :Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1878