Edward Digby, 12th Baron Digby explained

Honorific Prefix:The Right Honourable
The Lord Digby
Office:Member of the House of Lords¨
Status:Lord Temporal
Term Label:as a hereditary peer
Term Start:29 January 1964
Predecessor:The 11th Baron Digby
Term End:11 November 1999
Successor:Seat abolished
Birth Name:Edward Henry Kenelm Digby
Birth Date:24 July 1924

Edward Henry Kenelm Digby, 12th Baron Digby, (24 July 1924 – 1 April 2018), also 6th Baron Digby in the Peerage of Great Britain, was a British peer and British Army (Coldstream Guards) officer.[1]

Early life

He was the son of the Edward Digby, 11th Baron Digby. He studied at Eton and Trinity College, Oxford, and trained at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.

Career

During World War II, he served as an army officer with the British Army of the Rhine. As a cadet, he received an emergency commission as a second lieutenant on 15 February 1945, relinquished this commission on 22 May 1946 and received a regular commission in the Coldstream Guards from the same date.

Digby succeeded his father as Baron Digby in 1964. The House of Lords Act 1999 removed the right of hereditary peers to sit in the House of Lords. He served as Lord Lieutenant of Dorset from 1984 to 1999, and was appointed Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in the 1999 New Year Honours.

Personal life

In 1952 he married Dione Sherbrooke (b. 1934), daughter of Rear-Adm. Robert Sherbrooke and the former Rosemary Neville Buckley. They had two sons and a daughter:

He died on 1 April 2018 at the age of 93.[3]

Notes and References

  1. ‘DIGBY’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2013; online edn, Dec 2013 accessed 8 April 2014
  2. Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 1, page 1141.
  3. http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/223251/digby Digby