Kenelm Digby
English courtier and diplomat (1603-1665) · Politicians · Died at 61
Sir Kenelm Digby was an English courtier and diplomat. He was also a highly reputed natural philosopher, astrologer and known as a leading Roman Catholic intellectual and Blackloist.
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Sir Kenelm Digby by Sir Anthony van Dyck, c. 1640
Kenelm Digby by workshop of van Dyck
Venetia Stanley on her Death Bed by van Dyck, 1633, Dulwich Picture Gallery
Family portrait of Sir Kenelm Digby and Lady Venetia Anastasia Stanley with their sons Kenelm and John by van Dyck
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For his versatility, he is described in John Pointer's Oxoniensis Academia (1749) as the "Magazine of all Arts and Sciences, or the Ornament of this Nation".
