Sir Dudley Digges was an English diplomat and politician who represented Tewkesbury and Kent in the House of Commons of England between 1610 and 1629. Digges was also a "Virginia adventurer," an investor who ventured his capital in the Virginia Company of London; his son Edward Digges would go on to be Governor of Virginia. Dudley Digges was responsible for the rebuilding of Chilham Castle, completed in around 1616.

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