Digby, Kenelm (1603-1665)

English diplomat and writer. As a Catholic he was distrusted by Parliament and spent most of the years 1642-60 abroad. He was Queen Henrietta Maria's chancellor in the 1640s and retained his position after the Restoration, even though he had entered into negotiations with Oliver Cromwell 1654-56.

Digby's philosophical and scientific works include Observations upon Religio Medici 1643 and Private Memoirs of Sir Kenelm Digby, published in 1827.