Edward St. Vincent Digby, 9th Baron Digby of Geashill

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Edward was born in 1809. He was the son of Digby-239, Henry Digby and Coke-95, Jane Coke. He passed away in 1889. His father was Admiral Sir Henry Digby, who fought at the Battle of Trafalgar, and his mother was Lady Jane Elizabeth Coke, daughter of Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester. His sister was Jane Digby. Commissioned a captain in the Dorsetshire Yeomanry on 12 November 1848, he succeeded on 12 May 1856 as ninth Baron Digby (in the Peerage of Ireland) and third Baron Digby (in the Peerage of Great Britain) on the death of his 1st. cousin at two removes, Edward Digby, 2nd Earl Digby (the earldom became extinct on his death), and took a seat in the House of Lords. Made Lieutenant-Colonel in the Yeomanry, he succeeded Lord Rivers on 26 July 1856, and on 19 July 1866, as Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant of the regiment, resigning the command in 1870. In 1837 Lord Digby married his 3rd cousin Lady Theresa Anna Maria Fox-Strangways, daughter of Henry Fox-Strangways, 3rd Earl of Ilchester, dying in October 1889, aged 80. He was succeeded in his titles by his eldest son Edward Henry Trafalgar Digby. The Hon. Pamela Digby, American Ambassador to France was Lord Digby's great-granddaughter.