Henry Digby Best

(1768-1836)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Beste, Henry Digby, 1768-1836 DNB: Best [Beste], Henry Digby (1768–1836), Roman Catholic convert and author LBT ID: HeBest1836 VIAF ID: 66679210 LOC ID: n90606451	B/BAP: 1768-10-21 DIED: 1836-05
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The son of Henry Best (1730–1782); educated at University College and Magdalen College, Oxford, he took holy orders before converting to Catholicism in 1798. He contributed to the New Monthly Magazine and published a travel book and a novel.
REFERENCES TO Henry Digby Best: William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch. XIV. 1786-1789 Found 1: ¶ n1