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1559004The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915) — Digby, SamuelC. Hayavadana Rao


Digby, Samuel, C.I.E. 1907; b. 1853; s. of late William Digby of New Walsoken, Norfolk; formerly Assist. Editor, Times of India; Secretary of Indian section of Royal Society of Arts since 1890, and of same Society’s Colonial section since 1898; Member of Organising Committee and Hon. Secretary for India of Seventh International Congress of Hygiene and Demography (London, 1891), and Hon. Secretary for India of Eighth Congress (Budapest, 1894); Member of Council of National Indian Association in Aid of Social Progress and Education in India; assisted in movement which led to appointment of a Select Committee of House of Commons to consider the griavances of the Uncovenanted Services of India (1890). Recreations: walking and music. Address: 1, Whitehall Court, S.W.1. Royal Society of Arts, John Street, Adelphi, W.C.