About William Digby, 5th Baron Digby
Lived 1661 – 1752 (aged 91). William Digby, 5th Baron Digby was an English politician.
William Digby, 5th Baron Digby (20 February 1661 – 27 November 1752) was an English politician.
Life Digby was a younger son of Kildare Digby, 2nd Baron Digby, and Mary Gardiner. He matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford on 16 May 1679, and received a BA in 1681.
In 1686 he succeeded his elder brother as fifth Baron Digby. This was an Irish peerage and did not entitle him to a seat in the English House of Lords. He was instead elected to the House of Commons for Warwick in 1689, a constituency he continued to represent until 1698. In September 1698, he inherited the estate of Sherborne Castle from his third cousin once removed, John Digby, 3rd Earl of Bristol.
In 1708, Digby was awarded a DCL from Oxford.
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