George Digby (2nd Earl of Bristol)

Thomas Burns on 22 Mar 2005   Link to this

Information on the 2nd Earl of Bristol may be found at:

http://www.thevickerage.worldonline.co.uk/ecivi...

Also an interesting article in the Catholic encyclopedia:

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04791a.htm

vicenzo on 22 Mar 2005   Link to this

He attended the House of Lords on most Occassions as Comes Bristoll, no oher record found in the Houses.

Pedro on 22 Mar 2005   Link to this

Digby.

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Digby showed his

jeannine on 8 Jan 2006   Link to this

From Grammont's footnotes

George Digby. The account here given of the practices of this nobleman receives confirmation from Lord Clarendon, who observes of him, "that he had left no way unattempted to render himself gracious to the king, by saying and doing all that might be acceptable unto him, and contriving such meetings and jollities as he was pleased with." -- Continuation of his Life, p. 208. Lord Orford says of him, that "his life was one contradiction. He wrote against popery, and embraced it; he was a zealous opposerof the court, and a sacrifice to it; was conscientiously converted in the midst of his prosecution of Lord Strafford, and was most unconscientiously a prosecutor of Lord Clarendon. With great parts, he always hurt himself and his friends; with romantic bravery, he was always an unsuccessful commander. He spoke for the Test Act, though a Roman Catholic, and addicted himself to astrology on the birth-day of true philosophy." -- Catalogue of Royal and Noble Authors, vol. ii. p. 25. The histories of England abound with the adventures of this inconsistent nobleman, who died, neither loved nor regretted by any party, in the year 1676.

http://www.pseudopodium.org/repress/grammont/no... see note 107

Terry F on 9 Jan 2006   Link to this

George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol (22 February 1612 - 20 May 1677), eldest son of the first Earl.

An extensive bio with contenporary and subsequent verdicts on his life, character and conduct: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Digby

Pauline on 11 Jul 2006   Link to this

from L&M Companion
Digby, George, Baron Digby 1641, succ. as 2nd Earl of Bristol 1653 (1612-77). Politician, soldier, and playwright--a man of brilliant gifts, but almost no achievements, having, in Burnet's word, 'no jugment nor steadiness'. He had served Charles I, briefly and disastrously, as a Secretary of State in 1643 and was appointed to the same office by Charles II in 1657, but was made to resign on becoming a Roman Catholic. His religion excluded him from high office thereafter and he played a spoiling game in the politics of the diary period, making himself unpopular and mistrusted on all sides. The diary has several revealing references to his vendetta against Clarendon. The only play he published was "Elvira" (1667).