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Edward Digby, 2nd Earl Digby

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Edward Digby, 2nd Earl Digby (6 January 1773 – 12 May 1856), known as Viscount Coleshill from 1790 to 1793, was a British peer.

Digby was the eldest son of Henry Digby, 1st Earl Digby, and Mary Knowler. He succeeded his father in the earldom in 1793 and was able to take his seat in the House of Lords on his twenty-first birthday the following year. Lord Digby is most notable for serving as Lord Lieutenant of Dorset for nearly fifty years, from 1808 to 1856. On 20 May 1824, he appointed himself Colonel of the Dorset Militia, in which he had served as a captain in his youth. He resigned the colonelcy at the beginning of 1846. He never married and on his death in May 1856, aged 83, the viscountcy and earldom became extinct. However, he was succeeded in the two baronies of Digby by his first cousin once removed Edward Digby, who became the 9th and 3rd Baron.

Coat of arms of Edward Digby, 2nd Earl Digby
Crest
An ostrich, holding in the beak a horse-shoe all proper.
Escutcheon
Azure, a fleur-de-lis argent
Supporters
On either side a monkey proper environed about the middle and lined or.
Motto
DEO NON FORTUNA (From God not chance)

Notes

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  2. "Page 1038 | Issue 15076, 30 October 1798 | London Gazette | The Gazette". www.thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
  3. "No. 18034". The London Gazette. 8 June 1824. p. 932.
  4. "No. 20562". The London Gazette. 20 January 1846. p. 209.
  5. Debrett's Peerage. 1973.

References

  • Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
  • Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages
Military offices
Preceded byRichard Bingham Colonel of the Dorset Militia
1824–1856 		Succeeded byJohn James Smith
Honorary titles
Preceded byThe Earl of Dorchester Lord Lieutenant of Dorset
1808–1856 		Succeeded byThe Earl of Shaftesbury
Peerage of Great Britain
Preceded byHenry Digby Earl Digby
1793–1856 		Extinct
Baron Digby
1793–1856 		Succeeded byEdward Digby
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded byHenry Digby Baron Digby
1793–1856 		Succeeded byEdward Digby
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