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| | Reports on Historical Manuscripts - Offaly History, Archaeology, Offaly Towns, Heritage, Research, King's County (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) |
 | | Henry Digby (1731-93), seventh Baron Digby of Geashill, for whom the barony of Digby of Sherborne was revived in 1765, was further created Viscount Coleshill and Earl Digby in 1790. |
 | | The Sherborne Castle estate, however, was inherited by George Digby Wingfield (from 1856 George Digby Wingfield Digby), whose father the lawyer William Wingfield (d1858) had married a sister of the second Earl, while the Coleshill estate descended to William Wingfield's younger son the Revd John Digby Wingfield Digby (1799-1878). |
 | | In 1883 the latter's son John Digby Wingfield Digby of Coleshill succeeded his uncle at Sherborne Castle, thus uniting the Sherborne and Coleshill estates in the possession of the Wingfield Digby family. |
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