Kenelm Hubert Digby

Kenelm Hubert Digby MBE (10 March 1912, in London – 5 August 2001) was the proposer of the controversial 1933 "King and Country" debate in the Oxford Union who later became the Attorney General and a judge in Sarawak.

Biography Digby was born in London, the son of Edward Aylmer Digby by marriage to Winifred Digby Watson, his first cousin. Digby's paternal grandfather was Sir Kenelm Edward Digby, a lawyer who was Permanent Under-Secretary in the British Home Office from 1895 to 1903; his father was also a lawyer, who had commanded a warship in the Great War and had stood unsuccessfully for parliament as both a Liberal and a Labour candidate.

Digby was educated at Lydgate House Preparatory School and then Gresham's School, in Norfolk before he read philosophy, politics and economics (PPE) at St John's College, Oxford. After his death, his widow commented, "That Oxford Union motion haunted him. It dogged him wherever he went".

Selected bibliography Lawyer in the Wilderness Ithaca, New York: Cornell University, 1980 (Data Paper 114, Southeast Asia Program, Department of Asian Studies). Large portions are reproduced verbatim in Barbed Wire Between Us.