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Kenelm George Digby

1890 – 1944

British-Indian judge

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Lived 1890 – 1944 (aged 54). Kenelm George Digby was a British and Indian judge.

Kenelm George Digby (23 March 1890 – 25 September 1944) was a British civil administrator and High Court judge in India.

Digby was the son of Colonel Thomas E. Digby and Alice Isabella Sherard. He was educated at Haileybury College and studied classics at Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1913 he passed the entrance requirements for the Indian Civil Service and was appointed in 1914. From 1916 to 1920 he underwent military service: he was 2nd Lieutenant IARO 95th Russell's Infantry, 1916; Lieutenant IARO 111th Maharajas, 1917; and was attached to Southern Command Headquarters at Poona in 1918. In 1943 he was appointed Puisne Judge High Court of Judicature at Nagpur.

In 1926 Digby married Violet M. Kidd and they had one son, Simon Digby, later to become a noted oriental scholar. Digby died on 25 September 1944.

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Trinity College, Haileybury and Imperial Service College
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Indian Civil Service

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British-Indian judge (1890-1944)

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Kenelm George Digby was born on 23 March 1890.

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Kenelm George Digby died on 25 September 1944.

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Kenelm George Digby was a judge.

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Kenelm George Digby was British and Indian.

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