DIGBY, KENELM HENRY , English writer, youngest son of William Digby, dean of Clonfert, was born at Clonfert, Ireland. His reputation rests chiefly on his earliest publication, The Broadstone of Honour, or Rules for the Gentle men of England (1822), which contains an exhaustive survey of mediaeval customs, full of quotations from varied sources. The work was subsequently enlarged and issued (1826-27) in four volumes entitled : Godefridus, Tancredus, Morus and Orlandus (numerous re-impressions, the best of which is the edition brought out by B. Quaritch in five volumes, 1876-77).
See J. Gillow's Bibliographical Dictionary of English Catholics, ii. 81-83, and Bernard Holland, Memoir of Kenelm Henry Digby 09i9).