Digby, Kenelm Henry, 1800-1880
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Kenelm Henry Digby was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he received his B.A. in 1819. He later authored several books including The broad stone of honour (1822), Mores catholici (1831-40), and Evening on the Thames (1860).
From the description of Kenelm Henry Digby travel journals, 1820 and 1821. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 39501792
Kenelm Henry Digby (1800-1880), English Catholic writer best known for The Broad Stone of Honour (1822; rev. 1826-27) and Mores Catholici (1831-40).
From the description of Kenelm Henry Digby collection, 1815-1918. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702171232
From the description of Kenelm Henry Digby collection, 1815-1918. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79035293
Epithet: miscellaneous writer
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Kenelm Henry Digby, youngest son of William Digby, Anglican Dean of Clonfert, was born in Ireland in 1800 and took his B.A. at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1819. In 1822 he published The Broad Stone of Honour, a lengthy but popular and influental work on chivalry.
Digby converted to Roman Catholicism in 1825 and published a much rewritten version of Broad Stone in 1826-27. Mores Catholici, an eleven-volume work on medieval Catholicism and culture, appeared in 1831-40, and Compitum, or, The Meeting of the Ways at the Catholic Church, a Catholic apologetic, in 1848. In addition to these, Digby published several collections of poetry; the meditative The Lover's Seat (1856); The Chapel of St. John, or, A Life of Faith in the Nineteenth Century (1861), dedicated to his late wife; and Evenings on the Thames, or, Serene Hours and What They Require (1864).
Digby married Jane Mary Dillon in 1833; the couple had seven children, one of whom, Marcella Digby, was received into the Convent of the Sacred Heart at Roehampton in 1859 against her father's wishes. The Digbys spent much time in France during the 1840s and 1850s. After Jane Digby's death in 1860, Digby led an increasingly retired life at his home in Kensington until his own death on March 22, 1880.
From the guide to the Kenelm Henry Digby collection, 1815-1918, (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
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associatedWith | Digby, Marcella. |
associatedWith | Digby, Marcella. |
associatedWith | Hare, Julius Charles, 1795-1855. |
associatedWith | Holland, Bernard Henry, 1856-1926. |
associatedWith | Husenbeth, F. C. (Frederick Charles), 1796-1872. |
associatedWith | Jouenne d'Esgrigny d'Herville, Marie François Jules de. |
associatedWith | Manning, Henry Edward, 1808-1892. |
associatedWith | Montalembert, Charles Forbes, comte de, 1810-1870. |
associatedWith | Phillipps, Ambrose Lisle, 1809-1878. |
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