Digby, Edward Kenelm, 11th Baron Digby

Área de identidad

Tipo de entidad

Persona

Forma autorizada del nombre

Digby, Edward Kenelm, 11th Baron Digby

Forma(s) paralela(s) de nombre

  • Lord Digby

Forma(s) normalizada del nombre, de acuerdo a otras reglas

Otra(s) forma(s) de nombre

Identificadores para instituciones

Área de descripción

Fechas de existencia

1894-1964

Historia

Edward Kenelm Digby was born in 1894, the eldest son of 10th Baron Digby. After Eton and Sandhurst, he was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant into the 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards in 1915. He fought at the battles of Aubers Ridge and Loos in 1915 and was promoted to second-in-command at the age of 21, after his CO was killed. He took part in the battle of the Somme in 1916, when tanks were first used; 11 officers of his battalion were killed on one day in September 1916 and all the others were wounded except him. In 1917 he fought at Passchendaele and played a major role in the occupation and final defeat of Germany in 1918.

On his return home, he married Constance Pamela Bruce, daughter of 2nd Baron Aberdare in 1919 and inherited Minterne from his father when he died in 1920. He couldn’t afford to live at Minterne, so he took the post of Military Secretary to the Governor of Australia from 1920 to 1923. With his bank balance restored, he came back to Minterne, where he bred Channel Island cattle and established a thriving dairy herd. On the outbreak of war in 1939, Minterne was taken over by a naval hospital, and the family moved to Cerne Abbas. During the war, he and Lady Digby delivered the milk around Cerne Abbas.

Following in his father’s footsteps, he bred rhododendrons and azaleas, sponsored collecting expeditions abroad. He was appointed President of the Royal Show in 1949, and President of the Royal Horticultural Society in 1959. He was Lord Lieutenant of Dorset from 1952 until his death. He was appointed Gentleman at Arms 1939, and a member of the Household Body Guard in 1952, resigning on grounds of ill-health. He was made a Knight of the Garter in 1960.

He died in 1964 and was succeeded by his eldest son, Edward Henry Kenelm, 12th Baron Digby.

Lugares

Minterne, Dorset
Cerne Abbas, Dorset
Geashill, Co. Offaly
Australia

Estatuto jurídico

Funciones, ocupaciones y actividades

Landlord
Soldier
Horticulturalist
Farmer

Mandatos/fuentes de autoridad

Estructura/genealogía interna

Contexto general

Área de relaciones

Entidad relacionada

Digby, Edward Henry Trafalgar, 10th Baron Digby (1846-1920)

Identifier of related entity

Categoría de la relación

familia

Tipo de relación

Digby, Edward Henry Trafalgar, 10th Baron Digby

es el padre de

Digby, Edward Kenelm, 11th Baron Digby

Fechas de relación

Descripción de la relación

Entidad relacionada

Digby, Edward Henry Kenelm, 12th Baron (1924-2018)

Identifier of related entity

Categoría de la relación

familia

Tipo de relación

Digby, Edward Henry Kenelm, 12th Baron

es el hijo de

Digby, Edward Kenelm, 11th Baron Digby

Fechas de relación

Descripción de la relación

Entidad relacionada

Digby, Edward St.Vincent, 9th Baron (1809-1889)

Identifier of related entity

Categoría de la relación

familia

Tipo de relación

Digby, Edward St.Vincent, 9th Baron

es el abuelo de

Digby, Edward Kenelm, 11th Baron Digby

Fechas de relación

Descripción de la relación

Área de puntos de acceso

Puntos de acceso por materia

Puntos de acceso por lugar

Occupations

Área de control

Identificador de registro de autoridad

Identificador de la institución

Reglas y/o convenciones usadas

ISAAR (CPF): International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families, 2nd edition (2011)

Estado de elaboración

Nivel de detalle

Fechas de creación, revisión o eliminación

Biographical history by Mary Delaney
October 2016

Idioma(s)

Escritura(s)

Fuentes

Notas de mantención

Created by Lisa Shortall

  • Portapapeles

  • Exportar

  • EAC

Materias relacionadas

Lugares relacionados