1995

William Digby was a British author, journalist and humanitarian. Digby moved to the Indian subcontinent in 1871 and worked as a sub-editor in The Ceylon Observer., and as the editor of The Madras Times in 1877. He also worked as the editor of the Liverpool and Southport Daily News in 1880 and that of the Plymouth Daily Western Mercury in 1879. He served as senior partner of William Hutchinson and Company in 1887. While working in Sri Lanka, he was involved in a temperance campaign and another one for abolishing food taxes.