Dick Wingfield Digby

Richard Shuttleworth Wingfield Digby (19 August 1911 – 29 January 2007[1]) was the Dean of Peterborough in the Church of England from 1966 to 1980.[2][3]

He was educated at the Nautical College, Pangbourne, and Christ's College, Cambridge. He was ordained in 1937 and began his ministry as a curate at St Andrew's, Rugby. He then became a chaplain to the Forces and was a prisoner of war from 1940 to 1945.[4] When peace returned he became vicar of All Saints, Newmarket[5] and then Rural Dean of Bury[6] before his appointment to the deanery.[7]

References
  1. "The Very Rev Dick Wingfield Digby". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 17 September 2018.
  2. Geograph
  3. The Times, 26 January 1980, "Resignation of the Dean of Peterborough", p. 16.
  4. Who's Who 1970, p. 2163 ISBN 0-7136-1140-5
  5. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-200008-X
  6. Bury Parish Church
  7. Church Times obituary


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