DIGBY, George Stephen, b. 7 July 1821; second lieut. R.M.A. 16 Aug. 1842, col. 23 March 1865, col. commandant 3 May 1876 to death; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857. d. London 19 March 1877.
DIGBY, Jane Elizabeth (only dau. of Admiral Sir Henry Digby, G.C.B. 1770–1842). b. 3 April 1807. m. (1) 15 Sep. 1824 Edward Law 1 Earl of Ellenborough, they separated 22 May 1829, he obtained a divorce in Consistory Court of Bishop of London 20 Feb. 1830 for her adultery with Felix, Prince Swartzenburgh, marriage was dissolved by private act of parliament 11 Geo. iv, cap. 51, 8 April 1830; m. (2) 10 Nov. 1832 Charles Theodore Herbert, Baron Venningen of Bavaria; m. (3) Hadji-Petros a general in the Greek army; m. (4) a Bedouin Arab called Midjouel. She is sketched by About under the name of Ianthe, in his Grèce Contemporaine (1854) pp. 99–111. d. Damascus 11 Aug. 1881.
DIGBY, Joseph. b. 15 July 1786; entered navy 12 June 1800; captain 8 Sep. 1815; retired V.A. 9 July 1857. d. 5 March 1860.
DIGBY, Kenelm Henry (younger son of Very Rev. Wm. Digby 1730–1812, dean of Clonfert). b. 1800; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1823; joined Church of Rome 1823; author of The broad stone of honour, or rules for the gentlemen of England 1822 anon., which he rewrote and published in 4 vols. 1826–27 omitting the second title, an edition de luxe 5 vols. 1876–7; Mores Catholici or ages of faith 11 vols. 1831–40, and 16 other books. d. 7 The Terrace Kensington 22 March 1880. Gillow’s English Catholics, ii, 81–3 (1885).
DIGGLE, Charles. Ensign 52 foot 31 Aug. 1804; captain of companies of gentlemen cadets at Royal military college 10 Aug. 1820 to 23 June 1843 when placed on h.p. with rank of major; M.G. 31 Aug. 1855; K.H. 1831. d. Cheltenham 18 Sep. 1862 aged 74.
DILKE, Ashton Wentworth (younger son of Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke 1810–69). b. London 11 Aug. 1850; ed. at Trin. hall, Cam., scholar; bought Weekly Dispatch for £14,000 Jany. 1875, edited it to his death; M.P. for Newcastle, April 1880 to Feb. 1883; author of I. S. Turgenev’s Virgin Soil translated by A. W. Dilke 1878. d. Algiers 12 March 1883. Graphic xxvii, 469 (1883), portrait.
DILKE, Charles Wentworth (eld. son of Charles Wentworth Dilke 1742–1826, clerk in the Civil Service). b. 8 Dec. 1789; in the Navy Pay Office to 1836 when office was abolished and he retired on a pension; edited the London Mag.; edited the Athenæum 5 June 1830 to 23 May 1846; managed the Daily News, April 1846 to April 1849. d. Alice Holt near Farnham, Hants. 10 Aug. 1864. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 16 Aug. The Papers of a Critic edited by Sir C. W. Dilke (1875) i, 1–91.
DILKE, Sir Charles Wentworth (only son of the preceding). b. London 18 Feb. 1810; ed. at Westminster and Trin. hall, Cam., LLB. 1834, LLM. 1860; founded with John Lindley the Gardener’s Chronicle 1841; chairman of council of Society of Arts several years; commissioner of Exhibitions of 1851 and 1862; unpaid comr. to New York exhibition 1853 and Paris Exposition 1855; created a baronet for services as comr. 22 Jany. 1862; M.P. for Wallingford 13 July 1865 to 11 Nov. 1868; F.S.A.; F.R.G.S. d. Hotel de France, St. Petersburgh 10 May 1869. The Queen, vol. 1 (1862), portrait; I.L.N. xix, 487, 509 (1851), xl, 215, 225 (1862), portrait.
DILLON, Charles. b. Diss, Norfolk 24 May 1819; wrote magazine articles and melodramas 1836–38; acted Hamlet at City of London theatre 1840; stage manager, leading actor and dramatic author at Marylebone theatre 1842; starred in every city and important town in Great Britain and Ireland 1845–56; played at Sadlers Wells, April to Sep. 1856; lessee and manager of Lyceum, Sep. 1856 to 2 April 1857 and 20 Jany. to 22 March 1858; played at Drury Lane 1860, in the United States 1861–63 and 1866–68, in Australia 1863–66, at Sadler’s Wells 1868 and Drury Lane 1869; last appeared in London at Drury Lane, when he played Belphegor for his benefit 7 Dec. 1878; last appeared on the stage at Hawick town hall as Othello 23 June 1881; dropped dead in High st. Hawick 24 June 1881. bur. Brompton cemetery, London 29 June. Time, Feb. 1883 pp. 213–17; C. E. Pascoe’s Dramatic List (1880) 119–26; The Players i, 161 (1860), portrait; Touchstone 28 Sep. 1878, portrait; The Era 25 June 1881 p. 5 col. 4, 2 July p. 9 col. 4, and 9 July p. 14 col. 1.
DILLON, John Blake (3 son of Luke Dillon). b. Ballyhadenan, co. Mayo 1814; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; called to Irish bar 1841; agitated for the repeal of the Union; one of founders and proprietors of the Nation newspaper 1842; attached himself to political fortunes of Smith O’Brien 1848; escaped to France 1848; went to the United States where he practised in the New York courts 1848; returned to Ireland 1855; a leader of the National party; M.P. for co. Tipperary 24 July 1865 to death; alderman of city of Dublin; one of founders of National Association 1865 and secretary; author of The history of Indiana 1 vol. 1843, no more published. d. Druid lodge, Killiney 15 Sep. 1866. O. J. Burke’s Anecdotes of Connaught circuit (1885) 323–5; Sullivan’s New Ireland (1877) i, 148–53; Nation 6 Oct. 1866, portrait.