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.