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Sir Kenelm Digby biography - Paul Ferguson - 08-05-2023
"Sir Kenelm Digby was one of the most remarkable Englishmen who ever lived: a trusted advisor to the King, but the sworn enemy of the all-powerful Duke of Buckingham; a pioneering philosopher and scientist, but committed to the occult arts of alchemy and astrology; a friend not only of Ben Jonson, Thomas Hobbes and van Dyck, but even Oliver Cromwell. He was also widely known as the ‘son of a traytor and husband of a whore’: a man who witnessed his father’s gruesome execution for high treason as a Gunpowder Plotter, and the lover of the most celebrated beauty of the age, Venetia Stanley."
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Stain-Blood-Remarkable-Voyage-Kenelm-ebook/dp/B019CGXRXE
RE: Sir Kenelm Digby biography - Paul Ferguson - 07-27-2026
Some more Kenelm Digby materials here:
"Digby was good friends with Anthony van Dyck, the Flemish-turned-English portrait painter; the two often performed alchemical experiments together."
https://www.lindahall.org/about/news/scientist-of-the-day/kenelm-digby/
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2022/06/08/the-swashbuckling-philosophical-alchemist/
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/the-adventures-of-sir-kenelm-digby-17th-century-pirate-philosopher-and-foodie
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/0002698012Z.00000000019
https://csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/blog/forma-fluens/digby-corpuscularianism/
RE: Sir Kenelm Digby biography - Paul Ferguson - 07-27-2026
Van Dyck's Portrait of Sir Kenelm and Lady Venetia and two of their sons.