Family and Education
b. c. 1546, 1st s. of Leonard Digges of Wootton by Bridget, da. of Thomas Wilford of Hartridge.Vis. Kent (Harl. Soc. xlii), 65. em> educ. ?Univ. Coll. Oxf. m. Agnes, da. of William St. Leger of Ulcombe and Leeds Castle, Kent, 2s. 2da. suc. fa. c.1559.
Offices Held
Consultant engineer Winchelsea harbour c. 1577, Dover harbour 1581; supervisor of the works at Dover harbour 1582; muster master gen. of forces in the Netherlands under the Earl of Leicester 1586–94.
Parlimentarian
Main residences: Wootton; Wingham, Kent.
Volume
Commons 1558-1603
Web Title
DIGGES, Thomas (c.1546-95)
Will
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Oxford 1644
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