Men of Kent and Kentishmen/Thomas Digges
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Thomas Digges,
SOLDIER AND MATHEMATICIAN,
Was the son of the preceding, and an equally illustrious mathematician. He was born, probably at Wotton Courts near Canterbury, which had been purchased by his father. He was at the same time a soldier, and held the commission of Muster-master-general to the forces in the Netherlands, sent by Elizabeth. Besides revising his father's works he wrote several of his own, and drew up a plan for the improvement of the harbour and mole of Dover, 1582. He died 1595, and was buried in the church of Aldermanbury, in London.
[See "Wood's Athenæ Oxon.," by Bliss, "Ames's Typographia Antiqua," "Biographia Britannica," "Hasted's Kent."]