Digby Sir Kenelm

Digby, Sir Kenelm (1603-1665) an English knight, was educated at Oxford, and when Charles I. became king, was appointed gentleman of the bedchamber, a governor of the Trinity House, and a commissioner of the navy. He fitted out an expedition against the Algerines, then became a Catholic, and from 1638-43 was in prison as a Royalist. He then retired to the Continent until the Restoration, when he returned to England and became a member of the Royal Society.