Edward Digby, 2nd Earl Digby

Edward Digby, 2nd Earl Digby (6 January 1773 – 12 May 1856), known as Viscount Coleshill from 1790 to 1793, was a British peer.

Digby was the eldest son of Henry Digby, 1st Earl Digby, and Mary Knowler. He succeeded his father in the earldom in 1793 and was able to take his seat in the House of Lords on his twenty-first birthday the following year. Lord Digby is most notable for serving as Lord Lieutenant of Dorset for nearly fifty years, from 1808 to 1856. On 20 May 1824, he appointed himself Colonel of the Dorset Militia. He resigned the colonelcy at the beginning of 1846. He never married and on his death in May 1856, aged 83, the viscountcy and earldom became extinct. However, he was succeeded in the two baronies of Digby attached to the earldom by his cousin Edward Digby, 9th Baron Digby.

References

• Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages

Military offices
Preceded by Richard Bingham	Colonel of the Dorset Militia 1824–1856	Succeeded by John James Smith
Honorary titles
Preceded by The Earl of Dorchester	Lord Lieutenant of Dorset 1808–1856	Succeeded by The Earl of Shaftesbury
Peerage of Great Britain
Preceded by Henry Digby	Earl Digby 1793–1856	Succeeded by Extinct
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by Henry Digby	Baron Digby 1793–1856	Succeeded by Edward St Vincent Digby