Wingfield Digby was born at Blythe Hall, Coleshill, Warwickshire, the son of Captain John Digby Wingfield Digby and Maria Madan. A
Justice of the Peace, he lived at Coleshill Park, Warwickshire, and
Sherborne Castle, Dorset, another family seat. First elected at a by-election in
Mid Somerset in March 1885, Wingfield Digby's seat was abolished with effect from the
election of December 1885. He went on to represent
North Dorset between the
election of 1892 and his death in 1904. On 13 December 1883 Wingfield Digby married firstly Georgiana Rosamund Hewitt, a daughter of
James Hewitt, 4th Viscount Lifford, and Lydia Lucy Wingfield Digby, in
County Donegal. On 12 December 1888, his father died, and he inherited landed properties. In 1890 he married secondly Charlotte Kathleen Digby, a daughter of William John Digby and Sara Rebecca Le Poer Trench, at Paddington. With his first wife, Wingfield Digby had three children, Lydia Mary (1884–1887), Frederick James Bosworth (born 1885) and Georgina Rosamund Lettice (1887–1888). With his second wife, he had a further five children, Kenelm Essex Digby Bosworth (1891–1972), Kathleen Venetia (1892–1982), Dorothy Charlotte Edith (1894–1918), John Reginald (1896–1988), and Robert Almarus Wingfield Digby (1901–1974). ==Notes==