Digby

Digby, KENELM HENRY, was born in 1800, youngest son of the dean of Clonfert. Having entered Trinity College, Cambridge, he took his B.A. in 1819, and three years later published the Broad Stone of Honour—'that noble manual for gentlemen,' as Julius Hare called it, 'that volume which, had I a son, I would place in his hands, charging him, though such admonition would be needless, to love it next to his Bible.' It was much altered and enlarged in the 1828 and subsequent editions (the latest 1877), its author having in the meantime turned Catholic. He died in London, where most of his long life was spent, on 22d March 1880. Of fourteen other works (32 vols. 1831-74) all the last eight were poetry.