 Henry Beste, D. D., prebendary of Lincoln Cathedral.His mother, Magdalen, daughter and heiress of Kenelm Digby, Esq., of North Luffenham in Rutland, claimed to be the representative of the extinct male line of the historic Sir Everard and Sir Kenelm Digby.His father dying in 1782, Henry was sent two years later by his mother to Oxford.