Dick Wingfield Digby Explained

Richard Shuttleworth Wingfield Digby (19 August 1911  - 29 January 2007^[1]) was the Dean of Peterborough in the Church of England from 1966 to 1980.^{[2] [3]}

He was educated at the Nautical College, Pangbourne, and Christ's College, Cambridge. He was ordained in 1937 and began his ministry as a curate at St Andrew's, Rugby. He then became a chaplain to the Forces and was a prisoner of war from 1940 to 1945.^[4] When peace returned he became vicar of All Saints, Newmarket^[5] and then Rural Dean of Bury^[6] before his appointment to the deanery.^[7]

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Very Rev Dick Wingfield Digby . . https://web.archive.org/web/20180917034212/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1541435/The-Very-Rev-Dick-Wingfield-Digby.html . 2018-09-17 . live .
2. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5013579 Geograph
3. The Times, 26 January 1980, "Resignation of the Dean of Peterborough", p. 16.
4. Who's Who 1970, p. 2163
5. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976
6. https://openlibrary.org/b/OL5724491M/Bury-Parish-Church%2C-St.-Mary-the-Virgin Bury Parish Church
7. http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/content.asp?id=33101 Church Times obituary