Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H

DEVONSHIRE, William George Spencer Cavendish, 6 Duke of (only son of 5 Duke of Devonshire 1748–1811). b. Paris 21 May 1790; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1810, LLD. 1811; succeeded 29 July 1811; lord lieut. of Derbyshire 19 Aug. 1811 to death; bought library of Thomas Dampier, bishop of Ely for £10,000, 1812, and John Kemble’s collection of plays for £2000, 1821; ambassador extraordinary to Russia for coronation of Emperor Nicholas 25 April 1826; received Russian orders of St. Andrew and St. Alexander Newski and St. Anne 18 Aug. 1828 for magnificence of his embassy which cost him £50,000 beyond allowance for it made by Government; P.C. 30 April 1827; K.G. 10 May 1827; lord chamberlain of the household 5 May 1827 to 18 Feb. 1828 and 22 Nov. 1830 to 15 Dec. 1834; entertained Emperor of Russia, King of Saxony and Prince Albert at Chiswick 8 June 1844. d. Hardwick hall, Derbyshire 18 Jany. 1858. G.M. iv, 209–10 (1858); I.L.N. 15 June 1844 pp. 384–5, 23 Jany. 1858 p. 75; Waagen’s Treasures of art in Great Britain ii, 88–96 (1854), iii, 344–70 (1854); Catalogue of the library at Chatsworth 4 vols. 1879.

DE WALDEN, Thomas Blaides. b. London 1811; made his début on the stage at Haymarket theatre 1841; first appeared in America at Park theatre, New York 1844 as Belmour in Is he jealous?; engaged in mercantile pursuits 1857; a chaplain in volunteer army of United States during the civil war; author of The upper ten and the lower twenty played at Burton’s theatre, New York; The Seven Sisters; The Jesuit played at Bowery theatre, New York 1854; The Hypochondriac; wrote more than 100 plays. d. New York 26 Sep. 1873.

DEWAR, Frederick Charles (son of James Dewar 1793–1846, musical director of theatre royal, Edinburgh). Made his first appearance in London at St. James’s theatre 29 Oct. 1860 as Tunstall in Up at the hills; made his first success at same house as Dr. Bland in Friends or Foes the English version of Sardou’s Nos Intimes 8 March 1862; played Tom Stylus in Robertson’s comedy Society, at Prince of Wales’s theatre 11 Nov. 1865 to Sep. 1866; played Captain Crosstree in Burnand’s burlesque The latest edition of Black-eyed Susan, or the little Bill that was taken up, at New Royalty theatre 400 times from 29 Nov. 1866 to 20 March 1868; played Bishopriggs in Wilkie Collins’s drama Man and Wife, at Prince of Wales’s 22 Feb. 1873; played Angus McAlister in Gilbert’s comedy Engaged, at Haymarket 3 Oct. 1877 to 4 Jany. 1878. d. Chelsea workhouse, London 8 Jany. 1878 aged 46. bur. Brompton cemetery. The Universal Review 15 Oct. 1888 pp. 162, 169, 177, portrait; The Entr’ Acte 19 Jany. 1878 pp. 6, 9, portrait; The Era 13 Jany. 1878 pp. 6, 12.

DE WILDE, George James (son of Samuel De Wilde, portrait painter 1748–1832). b. London 1804 or 1805; contributed many articles to various periodicals; edited the Northampton Mercury 1830 to death; author of Rambles round about, and Poems, edited by E. Dicey 1872; his portrait by J. E. Williams was presented by his friends to the Northampton Museum 1871. d. The Parade, Northampton 16 Sep. 1871 in 67 year. bur. Highgate cemetery 22 Sep. Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xxviii, 311 (1872); The Northampton Mercury 23 Sep. 1871 pp. 3, 5, 8.

DIAMOND, Hugh Welch (eld. son of Wm. Batchelor Diamond, surgeon H.E.I.Co.’s service). b. 1809; ed. at Norwich gr. sch.; studied at St. Bartholomew’s and Bethlehem hospitals; L.S.A. 1829; M.R.C.S. 1834; practised in Soho, London; resident superintendent of female patients at Surrey county lunatic asylum 1848–58; kept a private asylum for female patients at Twickenham 1858 to death; invented the paper or cardboard photographic portrait; sec. of London Photographic Soc. 1883, edited its Journal vols. 5–8 (1859–64); contributed papers to first series of Notes and Queries on photography; F.S.A. 15 May 1834. d. Twickenham house, Twickenham 21 June 1886.

DIAVOLO, Joel Il, otherwise known as Joel Benedict. Wire walker, pantomimist and ballet master; one of the original troupe of Bedouin Arabs at Surrey theatre 1839; created a great sensation under name of Joel il Diavolo at Vauxhall Gardens 1845 by descending a single wire stretched across the gardens from a platform 120 feet high to the ground at opposite end of the gardens; adopted stage name of Joel Benedict about 1850; acting manager to Charles Dillon several years from 1852 sustaining part of clown in his pantomimes; travelled with Charles Harrison’s company in the provinces 1862. d. 3 Feb. 1887. I.L.N. vi, 396 (1845), with view.

Note.—There were about half a dozen performers who successively bore the name of Joel il Diavolo at Vauxhall Gardens; the last one in 1849 was John Delany who had been a miner in the Dudley coal mines.

DIBB, John Edward. b. Beeston near Leeds 24 May 1812; deputy registrar of deeds and wills in West Riding of Yorkshire 1840 to death; barrister G.I. 1869; author of A practical guide to registration of deeds and wills in the West Riding of Yorkshire 1846; Registries of deeds, suggestions for the improvement of the Yorkshire offices 1851. d. Wakefield 17 Sep. 1872.

DIBDIN, Henry Edward (youngest son of Charles Isaac Mungo Pitt known as Charles Dibdin, dramatist 1768–1833). b. Sadler’s Wells, London 8 Sep. 1813; pupil of Bochsa the harpist; made his first appearance 3 Aug. 1832 at Covent Garden theatre when he played the harp at Paganini’s last concert; organist of Trinity chapel, Edinburgh 1833 to death; published The Standard Psalm tune book 1851, and about 40 songs, piano and harp pieces and hymn tunes. d. Edinburgh 6 May 1866.

DICEY, Thomas Edward (only son of Thomas Dicey of Claybrook hall, Leicestershire 1742–1807). b. Claybrook hall, Leics. 11 Oct. 1789; matric. at Oriel coll. Ox. 17 Oct. 1806; migrated to Trin. coll. Cam.; senior wrangler and first Smith’s prizeman 1811; B.A. 1811, M.A. 1814; chairman of Midland counties railway; a director of North Staffordshire railway from its foundation 1846 to his death; proprietor of Northampton Mercury. d. Princes terrace, Hyde park, London 20 Feb. 1858.

DICK, Alexander. Entered Bengal army 1803; col. 71 Bengal N.I. 8 Feb. 1843 to 1869; general 3 May 1866. d. Deyrah, North West provinces of India 25 Nov. 1875 aged 86.

DICK, Hope. Ensign 23 Bengal N.I. 28 Sep. 1808; major 56 Bengal N.I. 1839–45; colonel Bengal infantry 16 Jany. 1855; general 28 April 1875. d. Cheltenham 24 May 1885 aged 93.

DICK, John (son of James Dick of Rochester). b. Rochester; entered navy Sep. 1785; captain 28 April 1802; admiral 19 Jany. 1852; a knight of the Crescent (Turkish order) 8 Oct. 1801. d. Southampton 10 Sep. 1854.

DICK, Robert (elder son of Thomas Dick, Excise officer, who d. May 1846). b. Tullibody, Clackmannanshire, Jany. 1810 or 1811; apprenticed to Aikman of Tullibody, baker 1824–28; journeyman baker at Leith, Glasgow and Greenock 1828–30; baker at Thurso 1830 to death; accumulated an almost perfect collection of the British flora and of fossil fishes; assisted Hugh Miller in his Old red sandstone 1841 and Footprints of the Creator 1849; helped Sir Roderick Murchison and other scientific men in their researches. d. Thurso 24 Dec. 1866. Robert Dick, baker of Thurso, geologist and botanist by Samuel Smiles 1878, portrait; H. A. Page’s Leaders of men (1830) 94–139; J. Copner’s Sketches of celibate worthies, 2 ed. (1886), 351–72.

DICK, Rev. Thomas (son of Mungo Dick of Dundee, linen manufacturer). b. the Hilltown, Dundee 24 Nov. 1774; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; licensed to preach in the Secession church 1801; teacher of Secession school at Methven 1807–17, taught at Perth 1817–27; lived at Broughty Ferry, Dundee 1827 to death; LLD. Union college, Schenectady, State of New York 1832; F.R.A.S. 14 Jany. 1853; granted civil list pension of £50, 21 July 1855; author of The Christian philosopher or the connexion of science and philosophy with religion 1823, 8 ed. 1842; Philosophy of a future state 1828; The mental illumination and moral improvement of mankind 1836; Celestial scenery or the wonders of the heavens displayed 1837. d. Broughty Ferry 29 July 1857, monument in churchyard of Chapel of Ease, Broughty Ferry, erected Jany. 1860. W. Norrie’s Dundee celebrities (1873) 167–72; The sidereal heavens by Rev. Thomas Dick, New York (1844), portrait.

DICK, William (2 child of John Dick of Edinburgh, blacksmith, who d. 1844). b. White Horse Close, Canongate, Edin. May 1793; ed. at Univ. of Edinburgh and Veterinary coll. London, obtained his diploma 27 Jany. 1818; practised as Vet. surgeon in Edin. 1818 to death; founded Edinburgh Veterinary College 1818; professor of veterinary surgery to Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland; vet. surgeon to the Queen for Scotland; Head inspector of cattle for co. of Edin. 1865; published Manual of veterinary science 1862. d. Veterinary College, Clyde st. Edinburgh 4 April 1866. Occasional papers on veterinary subjects by W. Dick with a memoir by R. O. Pringle (1869).

DICKENS, Charles John Huffam (2 child of the succeeding). b. 387 Mile End terrace, Commercial road, Landport, Portsea 7 Feb. 1812; a reporter in Doctors Commons 1829–31, in the House of Commons 1831–36; lived at No. 13 Furnival’s Inn 1835, at No. 15, 1836 to 1837, at 48 Doughty st. 1837–39, at 1 Devonshire terrace, Regent’s park 1839–51, at 1 Tavistock villas, Tavistock sq. 1851–60 and at Gad’s hill place near Rochester 1860 to death; edited Bentley’s Miscellany, Jany. 1837 to Jany. 1839; student at Middle Temple 1839; received freedom of Edinburgh 1841; visited U.S. of America 1842 and 1867–8; edited Daily News 21 Jany. to 9 Feb. 1846; started Household Words 30 March 1850, edited it to 28 May 1859 when he merged it into All the year round which he edited 30 April 1859 to his death; gave 4 series of public readings of his own works 1858–9, 1861–3, 1866–7 and 1868–70 gave his last reading 5 March 1870 in St. James’s Hall, London; author of Sketches by Boz 2 vols. 1835, 2nd series 1 vol. 1836; The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club 1837, and 32 other works. (m. at St. Luke’s, Chelsea 2 April 1836 Catherine Thomson eld. dau. of George Hogarth, musical and dramatic critic of the Morning Chronicle, from whom he separated April or May 1858, she d. 70 Gloucester crescent, Regent’s park, London 22 Nov. 1879 aged 64). d. Gad’s Hill Place 9 June 1870. bur. in Westminster abbey 14 June. J. Forster’s Life of C. Dickens 3 vols. 1872–74, portrait; Letters of C. Dickens 3 vols. 1880–82; Charles Dickens as I knew him by G. Dolby 1885; J. T. Fields’s In and out of doors with Charles Dickens 1876; Charles Dickens by G. A. Sala 1870; P. Fitzgerald’s Recreations of a literary man, i, 48–171 (1882); C. Dickens as a reader by C. Kent 1872; E. Yates’s Recollections ii, 91–128 (1884); J. H. Friswell’s Modern men of letters (1870) 1–48; J. C. Jeaffreson’s Novels and novelists ii, 303–34 (1858), portrait; R. H. Horne’s A new spirit of the age i, 1–76 (1844), portrait; Bookseller, July 1870 pp. 573–78, and Christmas number 1879 pp. 15–21; Illust. News of the world vol. ii (1858), portrait; Graphic xx, 556 (1879), portrait of Mrs. Dickens.

Note.—He is drawn by Anthony Trollope in his novel The Warden under the name of Mr. Popular Sentiment. The portrait of him painted by Ary Scheffer 1855 exhibited at the R.A. 1856 was purchased by trustees of National portrait gallery, July 1870.

DICKENS, John. Clerk in the navy pay office at Portsmouth and Chatham dockyards to 1822, at Somerset House 1822 to 9 March 1825 when he left the service; compounded with his creditors 1823; confined in King’s Bench or Marshalsea prison 1824; became insolvent, applied to be discharged 15 Dec. 1831; reporter to the Morning Chronicle to 1839; lived at Exeter; is drawn by Charles Dickens in David Copperfield as Micawber. d. Malvern 31 March 1851 aged 66. bur. in Highgate cemetery 5 April, where also lie the remains of his wife Elizabeth Dickens who d. 12 Sep. 1863 aged 73.

DICKENSON, Henry. Writer Madras civil service 1806; member of council and chief judge of the Sudder Dewannee and Sudder Foujdarry Adawlut 1846 to 16 Feb. 1850 when he resigned the service. d. Schweizenhof, Lucerne, Switzerland 29 Nov. 1859.

DICKEY, Edward John. Entered Bengal army 1822; superintendent of Stud department 9 May 1853; lieut.-col. 57 N.I. 15 April 1854; M.G. 31 Dec. 1861. d. Parklands, Guildford 19 Sep. 1883 aged 79.

DICKIE, George. b. Aberdeen 23 Nov. 1813; ed. at Marischal coll. Aberdeen and Univs. of Aberdeen and Edinburgh; A.M. Aberdeen 1830, M.D. 1842; M.R.C.S. Lond. 1834; lecturer on botany at King’s college, Aberdeen 1839–49; professor of natural history at Belfast 1849–60 and of botany in Univ. of Aberdeen 1860–77; F.L.S. 1863; F.R.S. 1881; author of Flora Abredonensis 1838; The Botanists guide to Aberdeen, Banff and Kincardine 1860; A Flora of Ulster 1864; author with James Mc Cosh of Typical forms and special ends in creation 1856. d. 16 Albyn terrace, Aberdeen 16 July 1882. Proc. of Royal Soc. xxxiv, pp. xii-xiii (1883).

DICKINSON, Sir Drury Jones (2 son of Edgar Dickinson of Dublin). b. Dawson st. Dublin 1804; a wine merchant in Dublin; high sheriff of city of Dublin 1833–34; knighted by Marquess Wellesley the lord lieut. of Ireland 1833. d. 10 Mountjoy place, Dublin 8 May 1869.

DICKINSON, John (eld. son of Thomas Dickinson, superintendent of shipping to Board of Ordnance 44 years, who d. 24 May 1828 aged 74). b. 29 March 1782; paper manufacturer at Apsley hill, Hemel Hempstead to 1857; F.R.S. 6 March 1845; master of the Stationers’ Company 1857 and 1858. d. 39 Upper Brook st. London 11 Jany. 1869.

DICKINSON, John (son of the preceding). b. 28 Dec. 1815; chief founder of the India Reform Society 12 March 1853, hon. sec. 1853–61, chairman 1861; author of Letters on the cotton and roads of Western India 1851; India, its government under a Bureaucracy 1853; Dhar not restored 1864 and other books chiefly pamphlets on subject of India; found dead in his study at 1 Upper Grosvenor st. London 23 Nov. 1876. J. Dickinson’s Last counsels of an unknown counsellor, edited by Evans Bell (1883), portrait.

DICKINSON, Sir John Nodes (son of Nodes Dickinson, F.R.C.S., staff surgeon to H.M.’s forces). b. Island of Grenada 1806; ed. at Caius coll. Cam., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; barrister I.T. 20 Nov. 1840; judge in supreme court of New South Wales 23 April 1844, chief justice there 1860 to 18 Feb. 1861 when he retired on pension of £1050 per annum; knighted by patent 19 June 1860; author of A letter to the lord chancellor on law consolidation 1861. d. Rome 16 March 1882 in 76 year. Heads of the people ii, 41 (1848), portrait.

DICKINSON, Joseph. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin; M.B. 1837, M.A. and M.D. 1843; physician to Royal infirmary, Liverpool about 1839 and subsequently to the Fever hospital, workhouse and South Dispensary, Liverpool; lectured on medicine and botany at Liverpool school of medicine; pres. of Liverpool Lit. and Phil. Soc.; L.R.C.P. 1844, F.R.C.P. 1859; F.L.S.; M.R.I.A.; F.R.S. 1 June 1854; author of The Flora of Liverpool 1851 and Supplement 1855. d. 92 Bedford st. south, Liverpool 21 July 1865.

DICKINSON, Sebastian Stewart. b. Bombay 25 March 1815; ed. at Eton; barrister I.T. 7 June 1839; M.P. for Stroud 19 Nov. 1868 to 26 Jany. 1874, re-elected 5 Feb. 1874 but election declared void April 1874. d. Brown’s hill, Stroud 23 Aug. 1878.

DICKINSON, Thomas. b. Hampshire; entered navy Feb. 1796; captain 29 Nov. 1832; received gold Vulcan medal of Society of Arts 1825 for his mode of applying percussion powder to the discharge of ships guns; author of A narrative of the operation for the recovery of the public stores and treasure sunk in H.M.S. Thetis 1836. d. Greenwich hospital 30 July 1854 aged 68.

DICKINSON, Thomas. Entered Bengal army 1805; col. 10 Bengal N.I. 10 May 1853 to death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854. d. Teignmouth 24 Oct. 1859.

DICKSON, Alexander. b. Edinburgh 21 Feb. 1836; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1860; professor of botany in Univ. of Dublin 1866, in Univ. of Glasgow 1868–79; professor of botany in Univ. of Edin. and regius keeper of Royal botanic garden 1 April 1879 to death; pres. of Botanical Soc. of Edin. twice; F.R.S. Edin.; author of numerous papers on botany. d. suddenly of heart disease at Thriepland pond near Hartree, Peebleshire 30 Dec. 1887.

DICKSON, Elizabeth (dau. of Archibald Dalzel, governor of Cape Coast Castle). b. probably at Cape Coast Castle 1793; wrote to the English press about 1809 to entreat that immediate steps might be taken to relieve the British captives in Barbary, the matter roused public feeling and resulted in the despatch of an expedition under Lord Exmouth 1816; received a gold medal from the Anti-Piratical Society of Knights and Noble Ladies; resided in Africa, chiefly at Tripoli. (m. John Dickson, surgeon to Lord Nelson at battle of Copenhagen). d. Tripoli 30 April 1862 aged about 70.

DICKSON, Ellen (3 dau. of general Sir Alexander Dickson). b. Woolwich 1819; an invalid from her youth; resided chiefly at Lyndhurst, New Forest; composed under pseudonym of Dolores upwards of 50 drawing-room songs which were very popular and some of which are still sung, the best known of them are As I lay a thynkinge 1857; The Brook 1857; The Fairies; Clear and cool; The land of long ago; O my lost love; The racing river; Tell her not when I am gone. d. Lyndhurst 4 July 1878.

DICKSON, James A. b. London 1774; made his first appearance on the stage in Boston, United States 1794 as Saville in The Belle’s Stratagem; became eminent as an actor of comic old men; manager of Boston theatre for some years from 1806; retired from the stage 14 April 1817. d. Boston 1 April 1853.

DICKSON, John Bourmaster. b. 29 April 1815; entered navy 1834; captain 17 May 1854; retired R.A. 1 April 1870; C.B. 20 May 1871. d. Thornborough, Ryde 11 Feb. 1876.

DICKSON, John Robinson. b. Dungannon, co. Tyrone 15 Nov. 1819; went to Canada 1838; graduated at Univ. of New York 1842; visiting physician to general hospital at Kingston, Canada 1846–54, visiting surgeon 1854–56, clinical lecturer 1856–60; dean of the medical faculty and professor of surgery in Univ. of Queen’s college, Kingston 1854, the name was altered in 1866 to Royal College of physicians and surgeons, of which he was pres. 1866 to death. d. Wolfe island, St. Lawrence river, Canada 23 Nov. 1882.

DICKSON, Sir Joseph Ritchie Lyon (2 son of Elizabeth Dickson 1793–1862). b. 1820; physician to British legation at Teheran, Persia 11 Sep. 1847 to death; attended the Shah for typhus fever 1849 for which he received the Commander’s Star of the Lion and Sun; accompanied the Shah to England 1873; knighted at Windsor Castle 30 June 1873. d. St. Juliens, Malta on his way home from Persia 7 Aug. 1887.

DICKSON, Robert. b. Dumfries 1804; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edin., M.D. 1826; a physician in London to 1866; L.R.C.P. 1831, F.R.C.P. 1855; lectured on botany at medical school in Webb st. London and afterwards at St. George’s hospital; author of A lecture on the dry rot 1837; wrote all the articles on Materia Medica in the Penny Cyclopædia 1833–58 and several articles on popular science in Church of England Mag. d. Cambridge lodge, Harmondsworth near Slough 13 Oct. 1875. Medical times and gazette ii, 509–10, 669 (1875); Proc. of Royal Med. and Chir. Soc. viii, 73 (1875).

DICKSON, Samuel. Educ. at Univ. of Edin. and in Paris; M.R.C.S. Edin. 1825; M.D. Glasgow 1833; assistant surgeon in army in India 1828–33; practised at Cheltenham 1833, then in London to his death; started The Chrono-thermalist, or People’s Medical Inquirer 1850 all of which he wrote himself, it ceased 1852; the Penn Medical College of Philadelphia was founded to teach his doctrines; he is drawn from life by Charles Reade in his novel Hard Cash 1863 as Dr. Sampson; author of The fallacy of the art of physic as taught in the schools 1836; Fallacies of the faculty being the spirit of the Chrono-thermal system 1839; What killed Mr. Drummond, the lead or the lancet? 1843, and 6 other books. d. 12 Bolton st. Piccadilly, London 12 Oct. 1869 aged 67. S. Dickson’s Memorable events in the life of a London physician (1863).

DICKSON, Thomas, b. Lauder, Berwickshire 26 March 1822; went to Canada 1835; established the Dickson Manufacturing Co. for building steam engines 1856 which became one of most important locomotive works in United States; general superintendent of Delaware and Hudson Canal Co. 1864, pres. 1869 to death; organised a company for purchase of a large tract of iron land on shores of Lake Champlain 1873; a director in 20 other companies, d. Morristown, New Jersey 31 July 1884.

DICKSON, William Gillespie (2 son of Henry Gordon Dickson of Edinburgh, writer to the signet). b. Edinburgh 9 April 1823; ed. at academy and univ. of Edin.; member of Faculty of Advocates 9 March 1847; procureur and advocate general of Mauritius, July 1856 to March 1868; senior sheriff substitute at Glasgow, March 1868; sheriff of Lanarkshire 21 Jany. 1874 to death; LLD. Edin. 22 April 1874; published A treatise on the law of evidence in Scotland 2 vols. 1855, 2 ed. 1864. d. Glasgow 19 Oct. 1876.

DIGBY, George Stephen, b. 7 July 1821; second lieut. R.M.A. 16 Aug. 1842, col. 23 March 1865, col. commandant 3 May 1876 to death; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857. d. London 19 March 1877.

DIGBY, Jane Elizabeth (only dau. of Admiral Sir Henry Digby, G.C.B. 1770–1842). b. 3 April 1807. m. (1) 15 Sep. 1824 Edward Law 1 Earl of Ellenborough, they separated 22 May 1829, he obtained a divorce in Consistory Court of Bishop of London 20 Feb. 1830 for her adultery with Felix, Prince Swartzenburgh, marriage was dissolved by private act of parliament 11 Geo. iv, cap. 51, 8 April 1830; m. (2) 10 Nov. 1832 Charles Theodore Herbert, Baron Venningen of Bavaria; m. (3) Hadji-Petros a general in the Greek army; m. (4) a Bedouin Arab called Midjouel. She is sketched by About under the name of Ianthe, in his Grèce Contemporaine (1854) pp. 99–111. d. Damascus 11 Aug. 1881.

DIGBY, Joseph. b. 15 July 1786; entered navy 12 June 1800; captain 8 Sep. 1815; retired V.A. 9 July 1857. d. 5 March 1860.

DIGBY, Kenelm Henry (younger son of Very Rev. Wm. Digby 1730–1812, dean of Clonfert). b. 1800; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1823; joined Church of Rome 1823; author of The broad stone of honour, or rules for the gentlemen of England 1822 anon., which he rewrote and published in 4 vols. 1826–27 omitting the second title, an edition de luxe 5 vols. 1876–7; Mores Catholici or ages of faith 11 vols. 1831–40, and 16 other books. d. 7 The Terrace Kensington 22 March 1880. Gillow’s English Catholics, ii, 81–3 (1885).

DIGGLE, Charles. Ensign 52 foot 31 Aug. 1804; captain of companies of gentlemen cadets at Royal military college 10 Aug. 1820 to 23 June 1843 when placed on h.p. with rank of major; M.G. 31 Aug. 1855; K.H. 1831. d. Cheltenham 18 Sep. 1862 aged 74.