Dudley Digges

Sir Dudley Digges (19 May 1583 – 18 March 1639) was an English diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1610 and 1629. Digges was also a "Virginia adventurer," an investor who ventured his capital in the Virginia Company of London; his son Edward Digges would go on to be Governor of Virginia. Dudley Digges was responsible for the rebuilding of Chilham Castle, completed in around 1616.

This article is about the seventeenth-century Member of Parliament. For the twentieth-century film and stage actor, see Dudley Digges (actor).

Sir

Dudley Digges
Born(1583-05-19)19 May 1583
Died18 March 1639(1639-03-18) (aged 55)
SpouseMary Kempe
ChildrenEdward Digges
Parent(s)Thomas Digges
Anne St Leger
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