Edward St Vincent Digby, 9th Baron Digby (21 June 1809 – 16 October 1889), also 3rd Baron Digby in the Peerage of Great Britain

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Biography

Digby was the son of Admiral Sir Henry Digby, who fought at the Battle of Trafalgar

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, and Lady Jane Elizabeth Coke, daughter of Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester

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. Jane Digby was his sister. In 1856 he succeeded as ninth Baron Digby (in the Peerage of Ireland

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) and third Baron Digby (in the Peerage of Great Britain) on the death of his first cousin twice removed, Edward Digby, 2nd Earl Digby

Edward Digby, 2nd Earl Digby

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 (on whose death the earldom became extinct), and was able to take a seat in the House of Lords

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Lord Digby married his third cousin Lady Theresa Anna Maria Fox-Strangways, daughter of Henry Fox-Strangways, 3rd Earl of Ilchester

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, in 1837. He died in October 1889, aged 80, and was succeeded in his titles by his eldest son Edward Henry Trafalgar Digby

Edward Digby, 10th Baron Digby

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. Lord Digby's great-granddaughter was the Hon. Pamela Digby, American Ambassador to France

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