Diggs baronets

Sir Dudley Digges, grandfather of Sir Maurice Diggs, Bt.

The Diggs Baronetcy, of Chilham Castle in the County of Kent, was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 6 March 1665 for Maurice Diggs. He was the grandson of Sir Dudley Digges, Master of the Rolls from 1636 to 1639, and the great-grandson of Sir Thomas Digges, the astronomer and mathematician. The title became extinct on Diggs's death in 1666.

Marriage and issue[edit]

He married first Beunet, daughter of Mark Dixwell, esq. of Folkestone and Brome, in Kent, and secondly Judith, daughter and co-heir of George Rose, esq. of Eastergate, Sussex, but dying in 1666, the title became extinct.^[1]

Diggs baronets, of Chilham Castle (1666)[edit]

Sir Maurice Diggs, 1st Baronet (c. 1638–1666)

References[edit]

^ Burke, J.; Burke, B. (1841). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland and Scotland. Scott, Webster, and Geary. p. 160.

Leigh Rayment's list of baronets

[1] Burke, J.; Burke, B. (1841). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland and Scotland. Scott, Webster, and Geary. p. 160.

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