Kenelm George Digby was a British civil administrator and High Court judge in India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

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Digby was the son of Colonel T. Digby and Alice Isabella Sherard. He was educated at Haileybury College and studied Classics at Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Trinity has more members than any other college in Cambridge or Oxford, with around 700 undergraduates, 430 graduates, and over 170 Fellows...

. In 1913 he passed the entrance requirements for the Indian Civil Service and was appointed in 1914. From 1916-1920 he underwent military service: he was 2nd Lieutenant IARO 95th Russell's Infantry, 1916; Lieutenant IARO 111th Maharajas, 1917; and was attached to Southern Command Headquarters at Poona in 1918. In 1943 he was appointed Puisne Judge High Court of Judicature at Nagpur

Nagpur

Nāgpur is a city and winter capital of the state of Maharashtra, the largest city in central India and third largest city in Maharashtra after Mumbai and Pune...

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In 1926 Digby married Violet M. Kidd and they had one son, Simon Digby

Simon Digby (oriental scholar)

Professor Simon Everard Digby MA was an English oriental scholar, translator, writer and collector who was awarded the Burton Medal of the Royal Asiatic Society and was a former Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, the Honorary Librarian of the Royal Asiatic Society and Assistant Keeper in the...

, later to become a noted oriental scholar. Digby died on 25 September 1944.

Source

• "Digby, Kenelm George", Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, December 2007 accessed 13 Feb 2009