During his career he wrote poetry, prose, and stage plays ; his last novel was Kenelm Chillingly, which was in course of publication in Blackwood ’ s Magazine at the time of his death in 1873.

Sir Kenelm Digby ( July 11, 1603 – June 11, 1665 ) was an English courtier and diplomat.

He did not immediately return to the orthodox positions of the Church of England, but was drawn into controversy with Catholics: with John Lewgar, John Floyd, and in a disputation with Thomas White before Lord Digby and Sir Kenelm Digby.

However it is not in a catalogue of Allen's library of 1622, and was not in the collection of Allen's manuscripts that was presented to the Bodleian Library by Sir Kenelm Digby in 1634.

Besides his youthful correspondence with Sir Kenelm Digby on the subject of religion, already mentioned, he was the author of an Apology ( 1643 ) Tracts, E. 34 ( 32 ), justifying his support of the king's cause ; of a comedy, Elvira ( 1667 ) in R. Dodsley's Select Collection of Old English Plays ( Hazlitt, 1876 ), vol.

He was unsuccessful except for a small pension for himself, but gathered like-minded others: Dury, John Milton, Kenelm Digby, William Petty, Frederick Clod ( Clodius ).

Although one eleventh-century source claims that Coenwulf's son, Cynehelm, briefly succeeded to the throne, it is more likely that Ceolwulf, Coenwulf's brother, was the next king .< ref name = Kenelm > See Alan Thacker, " Kings, Saints and Monasteries in Pre-Viking Mercia ", in Midland History, 1985, p. 8,

Founded by Kenelm Lee Guinness, part of the famous brewing dynasty, he was a noted early motor racer before developing highly reliable auto and aero spark plugs.

She was a granddaughter of Henry Percy, 8th Earl of Northumberland and the wife of Kenelm Digby.

The Closet Opened was posthumously published in 1699 by a servant and his son and in it Sir Kenelm Digby talks of many puddings including one that involves soaking bread in milk.

Saint Kenelm ( or Cynehelm ) was an Anglo-Saxon saint, venerated throughout medieval England, and mentioned in the Canterbury Tales ( the Nun's Priest's Tale, lines 290 – 301, in which the cock Chaunteecleer tries to demonstrate the reality of prophetic dreams to his wife Pertelote ).

In legend, St Kenelm was a member of the royal family of Mercia, a boy king and martyr, murdered by an ambitious relative despite receiving a prophetic dream warning him of the danger.

In AD 819, King Kenwulph of Mercia died leaving two daughters, Quendryda and Burgenhilda, and a son, a child of seven years old, named Kenelm who was chosen to succeed him.

When his body was disinterred, a spring miraculously appeared where Saint Kenelm had lain, as in the Winchcombe version, which is now followed faithfully once more.

He was succeeded by a distant cousin, Coenwulf of Mercia, whose son was Kenelm ( Cynehelm ), and this would appear to be the reputed saint.

The year 811 sees no more mention of Kenelm ; this was likely his death year.

The Clent Hills are also well-known for their role in the legend of St. Kenelm, who was murdered on a hunting trip at the north eastern slopes of Clent Hill in 821 AD.

In its time, it was the burial place of two Mercian princes, Kenulf and his son St. Kenelm.

The Abbey itself was in the grounds to the east end of the parish church of St Kenelm.

Kenelm Henry Digby ( c1800-1880 ) was an Anglo-Irish writer born at Clonfert in Ireland, though he certainly did not regard himself as Irish.

The extension was opened in 1983 by Kenelm Storey, the son of the former chairman, who became the fifth generation of the family to be involved with the company.

We would dismiss it with some portentous words of Sir Kenelm Digby, in his observations on Browne's religio Medici: ' I have much ado to believe what he speaketh confidently ; that he is more beholding to Morpheus for learned and rational as well as pleasing dreams, than to Mercury for smart and facetious conceptions '.

In his monumental study of Chivalry, The Broad-Stone of Honour, Kenelm Henry Digby offered the following definition: ' Chivalry is only a name for that general spirit or state of mind which disposes men to heroic actions, and keeps them conversant with all that is beautiful and sublime in the intellectual and moral world.

* The Sir Thomas Browne Page at the University of Chicago, a comprehensive site with the complete works — all the works mentioned above, plus the minor works ; Samuel Johnson's Life of Browne, Kenelm Digby's Observations on Religio Medici, and Alexander Ross's Medicus Medicatus ; and background material, such as many of Browne's ancient sources.

* Sir Kenelm Digby-A Conference with a Lady about choice of a Religion

Grigson subsequently worked as a translator, winning the John Florio prize in 1966 for her work with Father Kenelm Foster on the translation of Cesare Beccaria's On Crimes and Punishments ( 1966 ).

* Kenelm Digby ( disambiguation ), for various people with the same given name

The small church of St Kenelm, dating from the 15th century in a village called Kenelstowe, now stands with a handful of houses within the larger village of Romsley in the Clent Hills.

The night before the hunting trip, Kenelm had a dream in which he climbed a large tree decorated with flowers and lanterns.

The remains of Saint Kenelm were buried with all honour and he has since been revered as a martyr.

It tells a similar story to the one in the twelfth century manuscript at Winchcombe Abbey, with the following addition: after the murder and secret burial of Saint Kenelm in the Clent Hills, a cow came and miraculously sat at Kenelm's grave, eating nothing all day and returning each night with her udders full.

For other people with the same name, see Kenelm Digby ( disambiguation )

Though gravely wounded, Sackville survived, but Venetia Stanley ultimately married Sir Kenelm Digby who after his marriage maintained friendly relations with Sackville, referring to him as the ‘ Mardontius ’ in his memoirs.

Her academic publications include Women Latin Poets ( Oxford University Press ), Early Modern Women Poets with Peter Davidson ( Oxford University Press ) and The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby, co-edited with Peter Davidson ( Prospect Books ).

Subsequent manufacturing improvements can also be credited to Albert Champion, the Lodge brothers, sons of Sir Oliver Lodge, who developed and manufactured their father's idea and also Kenelm Lee Guinness, of the Guinness brewing family, who developed the KLG brand.

The Anglo-Saxon saint St. Kenelm is believed to be buried in the town.

Current projects include Concerto for Horn and Symphony Orchestra for Ondrej Vrabec ( Principal Horn Czech Philharmonic Orchestra ) and the Central England Ensemble, to be premiered in Birmingham UK in 2012, a commission from the Francis Brett Young society to compose a work based on Young ’ s poem, The Ballad of St Kenelm, to be premiered in Halesowen ( the poet ’ s birthplace ) in 2015, and a new work for solo piano for Duncan Honeybourne.

* Kenelm George Digby

In 1638 and 1639 were written the Letters between Lord George Digby and Sir Kenelm Digby, Knt.

She had four sons ( Kenelm, John, George and Edward ), one of whom died in infancy.

He also met and befriended numerous literary figures, among them Ben Jonson and Kenelm Digby.