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| Digby, Kenelm Henry. Adm. pens. (age 18) at TRINITY, Oct. 22, 1814. [Younger] s. of William [Dean of Clonfert (by his 3rd wife, Mary Wood)]. B. in Dublin. Schools, Dublin and Petersham, near Richmond, Surrey. Matric. Michs. 1815. B.A. 1819; Norrisian Prize, 1820. While at Cambridge entered into an examination of antiquities of the Middle Ages and the scholastic system of theology. Became a Roman Catholic in 1825 (Boase gives 1823). Married, 1833, Jane Mary, dau. of Thomas Dillon, of Mount Dillon, Co. Kildare, and had issue. Author, The Broadstone of Honour, or Rules for the Gentlemen of England, 1822 (anon.), which he re-wrote and published in four volumes 1826-7, omitting the second title; Mores Catholici or Ages of Faith, II vols. 1831-40; Cincinati, 1840; Compitum, or the Meeting of the Ways at the Catholic Church, 7 vols., 1848-54, 6 vols. 1851-5; The Lover's Seat; Kathemerina, or Common Things in relation to Beauty, Virtue and Faith, 1856; The Children's Bower, 1858; Evenings on the Thames, 1860; The Chapel of St John, 1861; Short Poems, 1865. Died Mar. 22, 1880, at Kensington. Buried at Kensal Green. M.I. (Not to be confused with a Kenelm Henry D. of Christ Church, Oxford; B.A. 1833; R. of Tittleshall and Canon of Norwich.) (Boase, I. 878; D.N.B.; Bernard Holland, Memoir of Kenelm Henry Digby.) | Kenelm Henry DIGBY Approx. lifespan: 1796–1880 pens. aged 18 Trinity College adm1814:10:22 Younger s. of William DIGBY [Dean of Clonfert, [ Co. Cork ???] (by his 3rd wife, Mary Wood)]. b. Dublin, [ Ireland ] Schools, Dublin, [ Ireland ] and Petersham, near Richmond, Surrey Matric 1815:10MT: BA 1819 Norrisian Prize 1820 While CB entered into an examination of antiquities of the Middle Ages and the scholastic system of theology. Became a Roman Catholic in1825 ( Boase gives (1823) m. 1833 Jane Mary DILLON dau. of Thomas DILLON, of Mount Dillon, Co. Kildare had issue Publ.: The Broadstone of Honour, or Rules for the Gentlemen of England 1822 ( anon. ), which he re-wrote and published in four volumes 1826-27, omitting the second title; Mores Catholici or Ages of Faith, II vols. 1831-40 Cincinati 1840; Compitum, or the Meeting of the Ways at the Catholic Church, 7 vols. 1848-54, 6 vols. 1851-55 The Lover's Seat; Kathemerina, or Common Things in relation to Beauty, Virtue and Faith 1856; The Children's Bower 1858; Evenings on the Thames 1860; The Chapel of St John 1861; Short Poems 1865 d. Kensington, [ London ] 1880:03:22 bur. Kensal Green, [ London ] MI (Not to be confused with a Kenelm Henry D. of Christ Church [Oxford] ; BA 1833 R.: Tittleshall and Canon of: : Norwich.) ( Boase, I. 878; D.N.B. ;Bernard Holland, Memoir of Kenelm Henry DIGBY . ) |