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Digges may refer to: Digges (surname) Jeremiah Digges, pen name of Josef Berger (speechwriter) (1903–1971), American journalist, author and speechwriter
Digges
English mathematician and astronomer (died 1595)
postulate the "dark night sky paradox". Thomas Digges, born about 1546, was the son of Leonard Digges (c. 1515 – c. 1559), the mathematician and surveyor
Thomas_Digges
Surname list
Digges is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Cole Digges (burgess) (1691-1744), colonial Virginia merchant, planter and politician Deborah
Digges_(surname)
English diplomat and politician (1583–1639)
and 1629. Digges was also a "Virginia adventurer," an investor who ventured his capital in the Virginia Company of London; his son Edward Digges would go
Dudley_Digges
English political writer (1613–1643)
Dudley Digges (1613–1643) was an English Royalist political writer. Dudley Digges was born at Chilham, Kent, in 1613, the third son of Sir Dudley Digges by
Dudley_Digges_(writer)
American politician and barrister (1620 – 1674/75)
christened in Chilham parish on 29 March 1620, Edward Digges was the fourth son of Sir Dudley Digges (1583–1638) and his wife Mary Kempe (1583–?). Sir Dudley
Edward_Digges
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Dudley Digges may refer to: Sir Dudley Digges (1583–1639), English diplomat and politician Dudley Digges (writer) (1613–1643), English Royalist political
Dudley Digges (disambiguation)
Dudley_Digges_(disambiguation)
Topics referred to by the same term
Cole Digges may refer to: Cole Digges (burgess) (1691–1744), Virginia merchant, planter and politician Cole Digges (patriot) (1748–1788), Virginia planter
Cole_Digges
English mathematician and surveyor
performance makes it dubious. Leonard Digges, born about 1515, was the only son of James Digges (born c.1473), esquire, of Digges Court and Broome in Barham, Kent
Leonard_Digges_(scientist)
Irish actor (1879–1947)
productions and performed in over 50 films. Digges was born in Ranelagh, Dublin in 1879, the child of James Digges and Catherine Forsythe. He became acquainted
Dudley_Digges_(actor)
American politician
of Edward Digges (1620-1674/5), who sat on the Virginia Governor's Council for two decades but died shortly before Bacon's Rebellion, Digges fled to Maryland
William_Digges
Topics referred to by the same term
Leonard Digges may refer to: Leonard Digges (scientist) (c. 1515–c. 1559), English mathematician and surveyor Leonard Digges (writer) (1588–1635), his
Leonard_Digges
16th-/17th-century English Hispanist and poet
Leonard Digges (/dɪɡz/; 1588 – 7 April 1635) was a Hispanist and minor poet, a younger son of the astronomer Thomas Digges (1545–95) and younger brother
Leonard_Digges_(writer)
Antarctic cove
Digges Cove (Bulgarian: залив Дигс, romanized: zaliv Digges, IPA: ['zaliv 'digs]) is a 1.77 km wide cove indenting for 860 m on the north coast of Elephant
Digges_Cove
Virginia merchant, planter, and politician (1716 – 1769)
Burgesses. This Edward Digges was the firstborn son of the former Elizabeth Foliott Power and her planter and burgess husband Cole Digges. He was named to honor
Edward_Digges_(burgess)
American politician
to 1934. Digges was part of a prominent Maryland family. He was born on February 17, 1877, in Charles County, Maryland, to Dr. John T. Digges and his wife
Walter_M._Digges
American planter and politician (1748–1788)
grandfather, Yorktown merchant Cole Digges who served in both houses of the Virginia legislature, and his cousin Cole Digges (d. 1777) who briefly represented
Cole_Digges_(patriot)
English lawyer and politician
Richard Digges (died 1634) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1597 to 1629. Digges was the son John Digges of Purton
Richard_Digges
American poet
Deborah Digges (February 6, 1950 – April 10, 2009) was an American poet and teacher. Digges was an academic who taught in the writing and English faculties
Deborah_Digges
Virginia merchant, planter and politician (1665–1711)
her death, Susanna bore sons Cole Digges, Edward Digges (who died in Woodford, England in 1711) and Dudley Digges, as well as a daughter Elizabeth. After
Dudley_Digges_(burgess)
Virginia politician (1728–1790)
Cole Digges who served in both houses of the Virginia legislature. The third son born to the former Elizabeth Foliott Power and her husband Cole Digges, he
Dudley_Digges_(patriot)
American politician
Digges Jr. and Dudley Digges Jr. advertised for sale between 600 and 800 acres near "New-Port-News", possibly Denbigh plantation. This William Digges
William_Digges_(burgess)
School for Black children in Virginia, US
Constructed in 1760, the structure has also been known as the Dudley Digges House and Bray-Digges House. Bought by Methodist missionaries in the mid-1920s, the
Williamsburg_Bray_School
Manor house and keep in Kent, England
funerary chapel to Chilham Church for Dudley Digges to contain Stone's funerary monument to Lady Digges in the early 1630s. If any traces of Jones were
Chilham_Castle
Guggenheim Fellowship in 1946. Berger, who wrote under the pen name Jeremiah Digges, went to Washington, D.C., in 1940 to become the editor of reports for the
Josef_Berger_(speechwriter)
American platner and politician (1742–1804)
the grandson of Cole Digges who helped found Yorktown. The other related men of the same name were: His great uncle William Digges (1650-1697) who represented
William_Digges_(patriot)
Topics referred to by the same term
Digges House may refer to: Williamsburg Bray School a 1760-1774 school for free and enslaved Black children in Williamsburg, Virginia. Dudley Digges House
Dudley_Digges_House
Failed Maryland state constitutional amendment
The Digges Amendment was an amendment to the Maryland Constitution, proposed in 1910, to curtail the Fifteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution
Digges_Amendment
Archaeological site in Virginia, United States
Susannah married Dudley Digges and William's own second wife was Anne Digges, both of children of Edward Digges, cementing the Cole-Digges family of Virginia
Denbigh_Plantation_Site
Historical building in Yorktown, Virginia, United States
The Dudley Digges House is a historical building in Yorktown, Virginia built around 1760. It is named for the owner, Dudley Digges, who was elected lieutenant
Dudley Digges House (Yorktown, Virginia)
Dudley_Digges_House_(Yorktown,_Virginia)
Arctic waterway in Nunavut, Canada
features after patrons who financed his voyages, including Digges Sound in honor of Dudley Digges. The sound's environs are approximately 12 km2 (4.6 sq mi)
Digges_Sound
American merchant
Virginia colloquially named the "Cole Digges House." The eldest son of prominent planter and politician Dudley Digges(1665–1710) and his wife, the former
Cole_Digges_(burgess)
Island group in Nunavut, Canada
The Digges Islands (Inuit: Saaqqayaaq-Qikirtasiit) are members of the Arctic Archipelago in the territory of Nunavut. The two islands, West Digges and
Digges_Islands
English actor
West Digges (1720–1786) was an English actor who made his first stage appearance in Dublin in 1749 as Jaffier in Venice Preserv'd; and both there and in
West_Digges
Missionary in China (1840 – 1912)
Charlotte Digges "Lottie" Moon (December 12, 1840 – December 24, 1912) was an American Southern Baptist missionary to China with the Foreign Mission Board
Lottie_Moon
Virginia attorney, merchant, planter and politician (1694–1771)
counties). This Dudley Digges married Mary Hubard, and none of their children had children. However, their daughter Maria Digges became stewardess of the
Dudley_Digges_Jr.
Building in Maryland, United States
The Digges-Sasscer house is an historic building in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. It has been home to Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer, Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer
Digges-Sasscer_house
ancestry included prominent politicians such as Dudley Digges, who lived in Britain, and Edward Digges, who immigrated to the United States and was politically
Mary_Digges_Lee
Irish civil servant (1844–1921)
Sir James John Digges La Touche, KCSI (16 December 1844 – 5 October 1921) was an Irish civil servant in British India, where he spent most of his career
James_La_Touche
English playwright and poet (1564–1616)
Thames. Londoners flocked there to see the first part of Henry IV, Leonard Digges recording, "Let but Falstaff come, Hal, Poins, the rest ... and you scarce
William_Shakespeare
American politician
Society. In 1843, he purchased the Digges-Sasscer house in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. Lavoie, Catherine C. (1989). "Digges-Sasscer House" (PDF). Historic American
Daniel_Carroll_Digges
Cosmological model in which the universe does not expand
Universe was first proposed by Thomas Digges in 1576 in his A Perfit Description of the Caelestial Orbes, in which Digges both presents and extends the Copernican
Static_universe
American historian (1878–1950)
Robert Digges Wimberly Connor (September 26, 1878 – February 25, 1950) was an American historian who served as the first state archivist of North Carolina
Robert_Digges_Wimberly_Connor
Historic house in Maryland, United States
colonial Maryland; the Digges, Carroll, and Lee families. The home was originally believed to have been built by Ignatius Digges (1707–1785) c. 1750, and
Melwood_Park
Former guildhall in Dublin, Ireland
the interest in a lease of some houses in the Lower Coombe for £80. David Digges LaTouche, Master of the Guild, put forward £200 for the construction of
Weavers'_Hall,_Dublin
Country in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991
facilities shuts down after more than seven decades". Bellona.org. Translated by Digges, Charles. Retrieved 19 November 2023. Lavelle, Marianne (10 December 2021)
Soviet_Union
Via Rail service in Manitoba, Canada
KRC Route map Show interactive map Legend 1697 Churchill 1685 Tidal 1670 Digges 1659 Bylot 1646 Lamprey 1632 Chesnaye 1617 Cromarty 1603 Belcher 1588 M'Clintock
Winnipeg–Churchill_train
1936 film directed by Wesley Ruggles
Benefield. The film stars Gladys George, Arline Judge, John Howard, Dudley Digges, Harry Carey, and Isabel Jewell. Valiant Is the Word for Carrie was theatrically
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
Valiant_Is_the_Word_for_Carrie
American Founding Father and politician
terms alongside veteran delegate Dudley Digges. As Virginians became dissatisfied with colonial governance, Digges and Nelson were elected to represent York
Thomas_Nelson_Jr.
Traditional European custom
they would go away. The custom has given its name to poems by Deborah Digges, John Ennis, Eugene Field, and Carol Frost. R. T. Smith's poem "Sourwood"
Telling_the_bees
Historic plantation site in York County, Virginia
600 acres, along with adjoining land for a total of 1250 acres to Edward Digges in 1650. It became known as the "E.D." Plantation at this time, and using
Bellfield_Plantation
1929 film by Wesley Ruggles
directed by Wesley Ruggles, and starring Ronald Colman, Ann Harding, Dudley Digges, Louis Wolheim, William Elmer, and Wilhelm von Brincken. The movie was adapted
Condemned_(1929_film)
1933 film
Fort. The film stars Stuart Erwin, Dorothy Wilson, Warner Oland, Dudley Digges and Gertrude Hoffman. It is one of the few Oland films from this period
Before_Dawn_(film)
1933 film
role he played onstage, both in the US and UK), and co-starring Dudley Digges, Frank H. Wilson, Fredi Washington and Ruby Elzy. The film was made outside
The_Emperor_Jones_(film)
Irish musician (1975–2023)
Sheehan began his career as a dancer. He taught hip-hop moves at Dublin's Digges Lane performing arts centre.[citation needed] Sheehan was best friends with
Mark_Sheehan
English scientist and occultist (1527–1608/09)
with the work (translated into English by his ward and assistant, Thomas Digges) of Nicolaus Copernicus. Many of his astronomical calculations were based
John_Dee
American politician (1829–1918)
County. He was also descended from Virginia governor Edward Digges and his father, Dudley Digges. Knott studied at St. John's Literary Institute in Frederick
Aloysius_Leo_Knott
Northern village municipality in Quebec, Canada
is in turn the northernmost part of the Labrador Peninsula. It is near Digges Sound, where Hudson Strait meets Hudson Bay. The municipal boundaries include
Ivujivik
School in Corio, Victoria, Australia
his own submission that he had a personal relationship with Digges, including that Digges was godfather to one of Sutherland’s children. This relationship
Geelong_Grammar_School
Confection popular in Australia
disgusting' food. You may even love it". ABC News. Retrieved 3 August 2019. Digges, Mariam. "Musk sticks: the lolly that divides a nation". SBS News: Food
Musk_stick
Radical shift in Western cosmology
"The Puritan Thomas Digges (1546–1595?) was the earliest Englishman to offer a defense of the Copernican theory. Accompanying Digges's account is a diagram
Copernican_Revolution
Argument in astrophysics against the theory of an unchanging universe
Puritan Thomas Digges (1546–1595?) was the earliest Englishman to offer a defense of the Copernican theory. ... Accompanying Digges's account is a diagram
Olbers'_paradox
Head of government of Virginia
J. West Reade (acting) Berkeley Jeffreys (acting) Kemp (acting) Bennett Digges Mathews Colepeper Chicheley (acting) Howard of Effingham Andros Wormeley
Governor_of_Virginia
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809
J. West Reade (acting) Berkeley Jeffreys (acting) Kemp (acting) Bennett Digges Mathews Colepeper Chicheley (acting) Howard of Effingham Andros Wormeley
Thomas_Jefferson
1931 American crime film
Daniels as femme fatale Ruth Wonderly. The supporting cast features Dudley Digges, Thelma Todd, Walter Long, Una Merkel, and Dwight Frye. Maude Fulton and
The Maltese Falcon (1931 film)
The_Maltese_Falcon_(1931_film)
1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2025 sp 2026 Ballot measures 1911 Digges Amendment 1992 Question 6 2012 Question 4 Question 6 2022 Question 4 2024
2026 Maryland Comptroller election
2026_Maryland_Comptroller_election
Colonial home of the Digges Family
patented in 1661, of the Digges Family, descendants of Edward Digges, who was Governor of Virginia from 1652 to 1668. Digges was an intimate friend of
Warburton_Manor
1930 film
Beryl Mercer, Montagu Love, Alison Skipworth, Alec B. Francis, and Dudley Digges. The film was later remade, with some changes, as Between Two Worlds (1944)
Outward_Bound_(film)
2019 radiation accident in Russia
October 2019. Digges, Charles (12 August 2019). "Russia says small nuclear reactor blew up in deadly Arctic accident". Bellona Foundation. Digges, Charles
Nyonoksa_radiation_accident
Governor of Virginia from 2018 to 2022
J. West Reade (acting) Berkeley Jeffreys (acting) Kemp (acting) Bennett Digges Mathews Colepeper Chicheley (acting) Howard of Effingham Andros Wormeley
Ralph_Northam
1929 film
Pre-Code drama film directed by Lothar Mendes and written by Richard H. Digges Jr., E. Lloyd Sheldon, and Arthur Chesney Train. The film stars Charles
Illusion_(1929_film)
American geology professor
Robert John Mitchell is an American geologist and Digges Distinguished Professor of Engineering Geology at Western Washington University. Mitchell, as
Robert_Mitchell_(geologist)
English politician (c. 1590–1664)
Marlborough and chose to sit for Wiltshire. On 29 April he joined Noy and Digges when they tried to modify the Commons' Bill of Liberties, and supported
Francis Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Trowbridge
Francis_Seymour,_1st_Baron_Seymour_of_Trowbridge
Governor of Virginia from 2022 to 2026
J. West Reade (acting) Berkeley Jeffreys (acting) Kemp (acting) Bennett Digges Mathews Colepeper Chicheley (acting) Howard of Effingham Andros Wormeley
Glenn_Youngkin
Nuclear-powered cruise missile
November 2019. Digges, Charles (12 August 2019). "Russia says small nuclear reactor blew up in deadly Arctic accident". Bellona Foundation. Digges, Charles
9M730_Burevestnik
Colonial governor of Virginia
J. West Reade (acting) Berkeley Jeffreys (acting) Kemp (acting) Bennett Digges Mathews Colepeper Chicheley (acting) Howard of Effingham Andros Wormeley
John_Ratcliffe_(governor)
Scottish physician, planter, and politician (1700–1784)
one George Digges), who was the son of William Digges, a member of the Maryland Proprietary Council. Her mother was Susanna Maria (Lowe) Digges. George and
George H. Steuart (politician)
George_H._Steuart_(politician)
Merchant and politician of The Colony of Virginia
historic Yorktown home once named after this man is now renamed the "Cole Digges" house after a politically powerful successor owner and resident since recent
Thomas_Pate
1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2025 sp 2026 Ballot measures 1911 Digges Amendment 1992 Question 6 2012 Question 4 Question 6 2022 Question 4 2024
1974 Maryland Comptroller election
1974_Maryland_Comptroller_election
Cape and northernmost point in Quebec, Canada
high rocky cliffs dominate the surroundings and mark the entrance to the Digges Sound. Here the strong currents from Hudson Bay and the Hudson Strait clash
Cape_Wolstenholme
1936 film by Lewis Milestone
Milestone. It stars Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll, Akim Tamiroff, and Dudley Digges. Director Milestone has a cameo role. General Yang, a warlord with control
The_General_Died_at_Dawn
American Founding Father (1736–1799)
J. West Reade (acting) Berkeley Jeffreys (acting) Kemp (acting) Bennett Digges Mathews Colepeper Chicheley (acting) Howard of Effingham Andros Wormeley
Patrick_Henry
1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2025 sp 2026 Ballot measures 1911 Digges Amendment 1992 Question 6 2012 Question 4 Question 6 2022 Question 4 2024
2026 Maryland Attorney General election
2026_Maryland_Attorney_General_election
mostly serving alongside fellow planter (and the late Cole Digges' cousin), also Cole Digges. He married first Elizabeth Reade (1751–1777), the only child
Edward Harwood (Virginia politician)
Edward_Harwood_(Virginia_politician)
Governor of the Virginia Colony (1652-1655)
the Governor's Council, and later that year when his predecessor Edward Digges traveled to England, became the Commonwealth Governor of Virginia, a position
Samuel Mathews (colonial Virginia governor)
Samuel_Mathews_(colonial_Virginia_governor)
United States Army officer and surgeon (1824–1872)
of the Potomac, in 1866. After the death of his 38-year-old wife, Mary Digges Lee, from gastroenteritis, Letterman became severely depressed. They had
Jonathan_Letterman
Monument in Stratford-upon-Avon
Folio of Shakespeare's works was published, prefaced by a poem by Leonard Digges that mentions "thy Stratford moniment" [sic]. John Weever transcribed the
Shakespeare's funerary monument
Shakespeare's_funerary_monument
English judge
1639 the Mastership of the Rolls became vacant on the death of Sir Dudley Digges, and Caesar consulted Archbishop Laud on whether he might obtain it, but
Charles_Caesar
American heiress (1703 - 1796)
Prince George’s County, Maryland. She was the daughter of Anne Digges (daughter of William Digges) and Henry Darnall II. The latter was a planter whose father
Eleanor_Darnall_Carroll
Extinct baronetcy in the Baronetage of England
was the grandson of Sir Dudley Digges, Master of the Rolls from 1636 to 1639, and the great-grandson of Sir Thomas Digges, the astronomer and mathematician
Diggs_baronets
1929 film
1929 American Pre-Code comedy film adapted by Melville Baker, Richard H. Digges Jr., and Louise Long from the play, The Concert by Hermann Bahr. It was
Fashions_in_Love
Appointed post in the Colony of Virginia
Richard Kemp (1644–1645) Governor Richard Bennett (1652–1655) Governor Edward Digges (1655–1656) Governor Lt. Col. Samuel Mathews (1656–1660, died in office)
List of colonial governors of Virginia
List_of_colonial_governors_of_Virginia
1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2025 sp 2026 Ballot measures 1911 Digges Amendment 1992 Question 6 2012 Question 4 Question 6 2022 Question 4 2024
2024 Baltimore mayoral election
2024_Baltimore_mayoral_election
1932 film
by Alfred Santell and starring Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell and Dudley Digges. It is based on the novel of the same name by Grace Miller White and its
Tess of the Storm Country (1932 film)
Tess_of_the_Storm_Country_(1932_film)
Astronomy book by Johannes Kepler
Copernicus to say that the theory of heliocentrism is physically true. Thomas Digges had published a defense of Copernicus in an appendix in 1576. According
Mysterium_Cosmographicum
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2024_Maryland_elections
Local election in Maryland, US
1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2025 sp 2026 Ballot measures 1911 Digges Amendment 1992 Question 6 2012 Question 4 Question 6 2022 Question 4 2024
2025 Annapolis mayoral election
2025_Annapolis_mayoral_election
1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2025 sp 2026 Ballot measures 1911 Digges Amendment 1992 Question 6 2012 Question 4 Question 6 2022 Question 4 2024
2024 Maryland Democratic presidential primary
2024_Maryland_Democratic_presidential_primary
1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2025 sp 2026 Ballot measures 1911 Digges Amendment 1992 Question 6 2012 Question 4 Question 6 2022 Question 4 2024
1798 Maryland gubernatorial election
1798_Maryland_gubernatorial_election
1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2025 sp 2026 Ballot measures 1911 Digges Amendment 1992 Question 6 2012 Question 4 Question 6 2022 Question 4 2024
1827 Maryland gubernatorial election
1827_Maryland_gubernatorial_election
DIGGES
DIGGES
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from Middle English digge ‘duck’, probably applied as a metonymic occupational name for someone who kept, caught, or sold ducks or as a nickname for someone thought to resemble a duck in some way.English : patronymic from Digg, a voiced variant of the personal name Dick.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Digges.
DIGGES
DIGGES
Male
Spanish
Spanish form of Latin Adolphus, ADOLPHO means "noble wolf."
Boy/Male
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Telugu
Lord Shiva
Girl/Female
Indian
Blessed by Prayers
Boy/Male
Biblical
The fear of the Lord.
Girl/Female
Muslim/Islamic
Lotus Water lily
Girl/Female
Indian
Gita ka Ansh
Boy/Male
Bengali, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sikh, Tamil, Telugu, Thai
A Wise Man; Poet; Beauty
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Merlin.
Boy/Male
Muslim
Corpulent, One who can pull, Name of a famous Arab poet
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Lord Shiva
DIGGES
DIGGES
DIGGES
DIGGES
DIGGES