page_title: John Wingfield Digby
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: John Wingfield Digby / Life
caption_attribution_description: English: John Kenelm Digby Wingfield Digby MP of Sherborne Castle and Coleshill Park Warwickshire. Born 2 September 1859. Died 25 December 1904. peerage.com: "John Kenelm Digby Wingfield Digby was born on 2 September 1859 at Blythe Hall, Coleshill, Warwickshire, England.2,3 He was the son of Captain John Digby Wingfield Digby and Maria Madan.2 He married, firstly, Hon. Georgiana Rosamund Hewitt, daughter of James Hewitt, 4th Viscount Lifford and Lydia Lucy Wingfield Digby, on 13 December 1883 at County Donegal, Ireland.4,3 He married, secondly, Charlotte Kathleen Digby, daughter of William John Digby and Sara Rebecca Le Poer Trench, in 1890 at Paddington, London, England.2,3 He died on 25 December 1904 at age 45.2 He held the office of Justice of the Peace (J.P.)3 He held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.)1 He lived at Coleshill Park, Warwickshire, EnglandG.1 He lived at Sherborne Castle, Dorset, EnglandG.1"
context_page_description: John Kenelm Digby Wingfield Digby was an English landowner and Conservative member of parliament. His name is often given as Wingfield-Digby, but the family does not use the hyphen.
context_section_description: 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. 
  First elected at a by-election in Mid Somerset in March 1885, Wingfield Digby's seat was abolished with effect from the election of December 1885. He went on to represent North Dorset between the election of 1892 and his death in 1904.
  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.
  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).
caption: Memorial to Digby in Sherborne Abbey
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