Simon Digby
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Simon Digby (died 1560)
Simon Digby (by 1499 - 1560), was an English Member of Parliament.
He was a younger son of Sir John Digby of Eye Kettleby, Leicestershire.
He was an esquire of the body in 1520, escheator for Northamptonshire and Rutland in 1540–41 and a gentleman pensioner by 1544. He fought in France under Henry VIII in the military campaign which led to the capture of Boulogne in 1544. He was appointed High Sheriff of Rutland for 1548–49, commissioner for relief in 1550 and a Justice of the Peace by 1558 to his death.
He was elected MP for Rutland in the Parliament of England in 1542, sitting until 1545.
He married Catherine, the daughter of Christopher Clapham of Beamsley, Yorkshire, with whom he had 4 sons and 4 daughters.
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Simon Digby (oriental scholar)
Professor Simon Everard Digby MA (17 October 1932 – 10 January 2010) was an English oriental scholar, translator, writer and collector who was awarded the Burton Medal of the Royal Asiatic Society and was a former Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, the Honorary Librarian of the Royal Asiatic Society and Assistant Keeper in the Department of Eastern Art of the Asmolean Museum in Oxford. He was also the foremost British scholar of pre-Mughal India.
Early life
Digby was born in 1932 at Jabalpur in the Central Provinces, now Madhya Pradesh, and was the grandson of William Digby, a member of the Indian Civil Service who, in the late 19th century, wrote extensively about the poverty created by British rule in India. William Digby was a friend of the Bihari barrister-politician Syed Hasan Imam once the leader of the Indian National Congress. His father was Kenelm George Digby, a judge of the Indian High Court, and his mother was Violet M. Kidd, an accomplished painter. As his father was a friend of J. F. Roxburgh, the first headmaster of Stowe School, Digby was sent to that school (1946–1951) after attending a preparatory school in North Wales. In 1951 he went with his mother on a painting expedition to Delhi, Rajasthan and Kashmir. On his return to Britain he attended Trinity College, Cambridge, (Major and Senior Scholar, Earl of Derby Student),1951–1956; History Tripos, University of Cambridge (1st Class Honours with Distinction) 1956; B.A. (Cantab.) 1956, proceeded M.A. 1962; .
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