page_title: William Digges
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: William Digges / Early life
caption_attribution_description: English: Cropped version of Sir Dudley Digges portrait
context_page_description: Colonel William Digges was a politician in Colonial Virginia and a councillor in Colonial Maryland in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. He was the son of Edward Digges, Governor of Virginia from 1655 to 1656. He was a member of the Maryland Proprietary Council until losing his office in 1689 during the Protestant Revolution, when the Calvert Proprietorship was overthrown by a Puritan revolt. He lived at Warburton Manor, an estate which is today the location of Fort Washington.
context_section_description: William Digges was born in Virginia in around 1651, the eldest son of Edward Digges (1620-1674/5), an English barrister and colonist who served as the Colonial Governor of Virginia from March 1655 to December 1656. Edward Digges invested heavily in planting mulberry trees and promoting the silk industry in the colony, in recognition of which he was appointed Auditor-General of Virginia.  In around 1675 Edward Digges died. As eldest son, William inherited the "E.D. Plantation", later known as Bellfield.
caption: William Digges' grandfather, Sir Dudley Digges
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