In 1899, Charlotte and her husband John Kenelm Wingfield Digby founded Sherborne School for Girls. The school opened on 20 September 1899 at Ramsam House on Greenhill with just 14 pupils, including five little boys. Charlotte was also a founder and governor of Headington School for Girls in Oxford, a governor of Foster’s and Lord Digby’s Schools in Sherborne, and … Read more
Elizabeth ‘Bess’ Throckmorton was born in 1565, the daughter of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, a cousin of Catherine Parr who served as ambassador to France and Scotland, and Anne Carew, daughter of Sir Nicholas Carew of Beddington, Surrey. Bess’s brother Arthur Throckmorton paid to install her as one of Queen Elizabeth I’s Ladies-in-Waiting, where she was … Read more
On 22 May 1686, Lady Jane Noel (1664-1733), daughter of Edward Noel, 1st Earl of Gainsborough (1641-1689) and Lady Elizabeth Wriothesley (d.1680), married William Digby, 5th Baron Digby (1661-1752), commonly called ‘the good Lord Digby’. They had four sons and eight daughters. Lady Jane died at Sherborne on 10 September 1733, aged 69, and was … Read more
Lady Anne Russell (c.1620-1697), daughter of Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford (1587-1641) and the Hon. Catherine Brydges (d.1657), was married to George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol (1612-1677). They had two sons and two daughters. During the English Civil War, George Digby supported the Royalist cause and in 1642 their home Sherborne Lodge (the … Read more