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Digby (KENELM HENRY an English)

KENELM HENRY, an English antiquarian; born in 1800, the youngest son of the dean of Clonfert, gradu-h ated from Trinity, Cambridge, in 1819, and in 1822 published "The Broad Stone of Honour" "that noble manual for gentlemen," as Julius Hare called it. was much altered in the 1828 and subsequent editions, its author having meanwhile turned Catholic. He died in London, March 22, 1880. Of 14 other works (32 vols. 1831-1874) eight were poetry.

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