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Persönliche Daten Thomas DIGGES 

• Er wurde geboren im Jahr 1546 in Wootton, Kent.
• Er ist verstorben am 24. August 1595 in London, Middlesex, er war 49 Jahre alt.
• Ein Kind von Leonard DIGGES und Bridget WILSFORD

Familie von Thomas DIGGES

Er ist verheiratet mit Anne St LEGER.

Sie haben geheiratet im Jahr 1582 in Wootton, Kent, er war 36 Jahre alt.

Kind(er):

1. Leonard DIGGES  1588-1635
2. Ursula DIGGES  ± 1592-????
3. Margaret DIGGES  ± 1590-????
4. Dudley DIGGES  1583-????

Notizen bei Thomas DIGGES

Thomas Digges (/dɪɡz/; c. 1546 - 24 August 1595) was an English mathematician and astronomer. He was the first to expound the Copernican system in English but discarded the notion of a fixed shell of immoveable stars to postulate infinitely many stars at varying distances. He was also first to postulate the "dark night sky paradox".

Thomas Digges, born about 1546, was the son of Leonard Digges (c. 1515 - c. 1559), the mathematician and surveyor, and Bridget Wilford, the daughter of Thomas Wilford, esquire, of Hartridge in Cranbrook, Kent, by his first wife, Elizabeth Culpeper, the daughter of Walter Culpeper, esquire. Digges had two brothers, James and Daniel, and three sisters, Mary, who married a man with the surname of Barber; Anne, who married William Digges; and Sarah, whose first husband was surnamed Martin, and whose second husband was John Weston.

After the death of his father, Digges grew up under the guardianship of John Dee, a typical Renaissance natural philosopher. In 1583, Lord Burghley appointed him, with John Chamber and Henry Savile, to sit on a commission to consider whether England should adopt the Gregorian calendar, as proposed by Dee.

Digges served as a member of parliament for Wallingford and also had a military career as a Muster-Master General to the English forces from 1586 to 1594 during the war with the Spanish Netherlands.

Digges died on 24 August 1595. His last will, in which he specifically excluded both his brother, James Digges, and William Digges, was proved on 1 September. Digges was buried in the chancel of the church of St Mary Aldermanbury, London.

Marriage and issue
Digges married Anne St Leger (1555-1636), daughter of Sir Warham St Leger and his first wife, Ursula Neville (d. 1575), the fifth daughter of George Neville, 5th Baron Bergavenny, by his third wife, Mary Stafford. In his will he named two surviving sons, Sir Dudley Digges (1583-1639), politician and statesman, and Leonard Digges (1588-1635), poet, and two surviving daughters, Margaret and Ursula. After Digges' death, his widow, Anne, married Thomas Russell of Alderminster, 'whom in 1616 William Shakespeare named as an overseer of his will'.
SOURCE: Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Digges

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