Dudley Digges
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This article is about the seventeenth-century Member of Parliament. For the twentieth-century film and stage actor, see Dudley Digges (actor).
Sir Dudley Digges (19 May 1583 – 18 March 1639) was an English diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1610 and 1629. Digges was also a "Virginia adventurer," an investor who ventured his capital in the Virginia Company of London; his son Edward Digges would go on to be Governor of Virginia. Dudley Digges was responsible for the rebuilding of Chilham Castle, completed in around 1616.[1]
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Sir Dudley Digges | |
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Born | (1583-05-19)19 May 1583 |
Died | 18 March 1639(1639-03-18) (aged 55) |
Spouse | Mary Kempe |
Children | Edward Digges |
Parent(s) | Thomas Digges Anne St Leger |
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