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{{Short description|English courtier, diplomat, astrologer and scientist}}
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[[File:Sir Kenelm Digby by Sir Anthony Van Dyck.jpg|thumb|210px|Sir Kenelm Digby by Sir [[Anthony van Dyck]], c. 1640]]

'''Sir Kenelm Digby''' (11 July 1603 – 11 June 1665) was an English [[courtier]] and diplomat. He was also a highly reputed [[natural philosopher]], astrologer and known as a leading [[Roman Catholic]] intellectual and [[Thomas White (scholar)|Blackloist]]. For his versatility, he is described in [[John Pointer (antiquary)|John Pointer]]'s ''Oxoniensis Academia'' (1749) as the "Magazine of all Arts and Sciences, or (as one stiles him) the Ornament of this Nation".<ref name=Pointer>{{cite book|last1=Pointer|first1=John|title=Oxoniensis Academia: Or, The Antiquities and Curiosities of the University of Oxford|date=1749|publisher=S. Birt, in Ave-Maria Lane; and J. Ward, in Little-Britain|location=Oxford|page=186|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pHZbAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA186|access-date=5 May 2015}}</ref>