Henry Digby, 1st Earl Digby
Henry Digby, 1st Earl Digby (21 July 1731 – 25 September 1793) was a British peer and Member of Parliament.
Digby was the younger son of Hon.
Edward Digby, son of William Digby, 5th Baron Digby.
His mother was Charlotte Fox, daughter of Sir Stephen Fox.
Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, was his uncle and Charles James Fox his cousin.
Digby was elected to the House of Commons for Ludgershall in 1755, a seat he held until 1761, and then represented Wells between 1761 and 1765.
From 1763 to 1765, he was a Lord of the Admiralty.
In 1757 he succeeded his elder brother as the 7th Baron Digby
but as this was an Irish peerage it did not entitle him to sit in the British House of Lords and did not force him to resign his seat in the House of Commons.
It did however give him ownership of the family seat of Sherborne Castle.
In 1765 Digby was created 1st Baron Digby, of Sherborne in the County of Dorset, in the Peerage of Great Britain with remainder to the male issue of his father.
He had then to give up his seat in the Commons and join his peers in the Lords.
From 1771 to 1793 Lord Digby served as Lord Lieutenant of Dorset.
In 1790 he was further honoured when he was 1st
Viscount Coleshill and 1st Earl Digby in the Peerage of Great Britain, with remainder to his heirs male.
Lord Digby married, firstly, Elizabeth Feilding, daughter of Hon.
Charles Feilding, in 1763.
They had one son, Hon.
Edward Digby (19 June 1764 – 15 July 1764).
After his first wife's death in 1765 he married, secondly, Mary Knowler, daughter of John Knowler, in 1779.
They had five children:
Lord Digby died in September 1793, aged 62, and was succeeded in his title by his eldest son Edward.
The Countess Digby died in 1794.
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George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol
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He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War but his ambition and instability of character caused serious problems to himself and the Kings he served.
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William Digby, 5th Baron Digby
William Digby, 5th Baron Digby( 20 February 1661 – 27 November 1752) was a British peer and Member of Parliament.
Digby was a younger son of Kildare Digby, 2nd Baron Digby, and Mary Gardiner.
He matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford on 16 May 1679, and received a BA in 1681.
In 1686 he succeeded his elder brother as fifth Baron Digby.
This was an Irish peerage and did not entitle him to a seat in the English House of Lords.
He was instead elected to the House of Commons for Warwick in 1689, a constituency he continued to represent until 1698.
In September 1698, he inherited the estate of Sherborne Castle from his third cousin once removed, John Digby, 3rd Earl of Bristol.
Lord Digby married Lady Jane Noel( c. 1664 – 10 September 1733), daughter of Edward Noel, 1st Earl of Gainsborough, in 1686.
They had four sons and eight daughters:
In 1708, he was awarded a DCL from Oxford.
He died in November 1752, aged 91, and was succeeded in the barony by his grandson Edward Digby, his son the Hon. Edward Digby having predeceased him.
Etan Boritzer
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His best selling" What is?" illustrated children's book series on character education and difficult subjects for children is a popular teaching guide for parents, teachers and child- life professionals.
Boritzer gained national critical acclaim after" What is God?" was published in 1989 although the book has caused controversy from religious fundamentalists for its universalist views.
The other current books in the" What is?" series include
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The series is now also translated into 15 languages.
Boritzer was first published in 1963 at the age of 13 when he wrote an essay in his English class at Wade Junior High School in the Bronx, New York on the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
His essay was included in a special anthology by New York City public school children compiled and published by the New York City Department of Education.
Boritzer now lives in Venice, California and maintains his publishing office there also.
He has helped numerous other authors to get published through" How to Get Your Book Published!" programs.
Boritzer is also a yoga teacher who teaches regular classes locally and guest- teaches nationally.
He is also recognized nationally as an erudite speaker on" The Teachings of the Buddha."
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Edward Digby, 2nd Earl Digby
Edward Digby, 2nd Earl Digby (6 January 1773 – 12 May 1856), known as Viscount Coleshill from 1790 to 1793, was a British peer.
Digby was the eldest son of Henry Digby, 1st Earl Digby, and Mary Knowler.
He succeeded his father in the earldom in 1793 and was able to take his seat in the House of Lords on his twenty-first birthday the following year.
Lord Digby is most notable for serving as Lord Lieutenant of Dorset for nearly fifty years, from 1808 to 1856.
On 20 May 1824, he appointed himself Colonel of the Dorset Militia.
He resigned the colonelcy at the beginning of 1846.
He never married and on his death in May 1856, aged 83, the viscountcy and earldom became extinct.
However, he was succeeded in the two baronies of Digby by his first cousin once removed Edward Digby, who became the 9th and 3rd Baron.

Question: What is the date of death of Edward Digby, 2Nd Earl Digby's father?
Answer: 25 September 1793