Edward Digby, 6th Baron Digby

He was a close connection of the Foxes, and from 1744 on regularly attended their annual shooting party in Wiltshire.

[1] On 27 November 1752, he succeeded his grandfather William as Baron Digby, an Irish peerage which did not oblige him to vacate his seat in the Commons.

Digby intended to contest Dorset, where he had large estates, in the next general election and asked for the support of the Duke of Newcastle, but when George Trenchard nominated him at the county meeting of gentlemen in August 1753, there was no enthusiasm for his candidacy and he dropped the plan.

His health was poor, and he hoped to obtain a higher peerage, either a British title or an Irish earldom, an object left unfulfilled.

He survived the surgery, but the wound was slow to heal, and he was left an invalid until he died on 30 November 1757.