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Buy as a greetings card. Use this image. George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol. by Jacobus Houbraken, after Sir Anthony van Dyck, published by John & Paul Knapton. line engraving, published 1738. NPG D28786. Find out more >. Buy a print. Buy as a greetings card.
George Digby, earl of Bristol died at his Chelsea home in March 1677 and was buried in the Russell family chapel at Chenies in Buckinghamshire. One reason for his failures was an inability to keep friends. Another was his tendency to seek risky solutions to political and military problems. Above all, he was self-destructive, with a tendency to ...
George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol. This portrait depicts the poet, playwright and politician George Digby (1612–77) on the eve of his election as MP for Dorset in 1640 and his elevation to Baron Digby in 1641. An ardent Royalist during the Civil War, Digby fled to France and served in the French army. Later, back in England, he was appointed ...
21 de ago. de 2018 · BRISTOL, GEORGE DIGBY, 2nd Earl of (1612–1677), eldest son of the 1st earl (see below), was born in October 1612. At the age of twelve he appeared at the bar of the House of Commons and pleaded for his father, then in the Tower, when his youth, graceful person and well-delivered speech made a great impression.
Portrait of George Digby by Anthony van Dyke. It was at this point that the 12 year old George had first gotten involved in politics, delivering an impressive speech at the House of Commons to ask that his father be freed. He was unsuccessful, but Buckingham’s murder in 1628 paved the way for his father’s reconciliation with the King.
A native of New Orleans, Louisiana, Digby started his professional career in 1944. He was coaching high school baseball in his homeland when a Boston Red Sox executive came to sign his best pitcher, Dick Callahan. [2] [3] After that, Digby worked in the Boston organization for more than 60 years, half a century as a scout, 14 more as a consultant.
It seems there was a George Digby Dent born in 1874 in Leeds Yorkshire, mother Stickley (poss George Dent and Ann Stickley who married in 1869 at St Goerge in the East, London. I think that one must have died and another of the same name born to the same couple in Wakefield Yorkshire in April 1795.
