Kenelm Digby (Rutland MP)

Kenelm Digby (died 21 April 1590) of Stoke Dry, Rutland was an English politician.

He was born in Stoke Dry in Rutland, the eldest son of Sir Everard Digby and Margery Heydon, daughter of Sir John Heydon of Baconsthorpe, Norfolk, and educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, and the Middle Temple.

[1][2] He should not be confused with his grandson, Sir Kenelm Digby (1603–1665), also son of a Sir Everard Digby (executed for taking part in the Gunpowder Plot), of Buckinghamshire.

He was returned as MP for Rutland (as senior knight of the shire) in successive parliamentary elections in 1545, 1547, 1553 (March) and 1553 (October), 1555, 1558, 1559, 1571, 1572 and 1584.

[2] He married Anne Cope, the daughter of Sir Anthony Cope of Hanwell, Oxfordshire; they had three sons and six daughters, including:[1] He died 21 April 1590 and was buried in the church at Stoke Dry.