Diggs baronets

Sir Dudley Digges, grandfather of Sir Maurice Diggs, Bt.

The Diggs Baronetcy, of Chilham Castle in the County of Kent, was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 6 March 1666 for Maurice Diggs. He was the grandson of Sir Dudley Digges, Master of the Rolls from 1636 to 1639, and the great-grandson of Sir Thomas Digges, the astronomer and mathematician. The title became extinct on Diggs's death in 1672.

Diggs baronets, of Chilham Castle (1666)

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