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| name = Digby
| honorific_prefix =
| honorific_suffix = BA
| image = File:Digby,_Adrian.jpg
| birth_date = 1909
| death_date = 2001
| address = Whiteknobs Hotel, Caterham, Surrey [A63]<br />British Museum [1933]<br />Drayton Hose, Lowick, Kettering, Northamptonshire; British Museum [census]
| occupation = archaeologist<br />museum work
| elected_ESL =
RAI Council 1934-35 Member<br />RAI Council 1935-36 Member<br />RAI Council 1936-37 Member<br />RAI Council 1938-39 Member<br />RAI Council 1939-40 Member<br />RAI Council 1940-41 Member<br />RAI Council 1942-43 Member<br />RAI Council 1943-44 Member<br />RAI Council 1944-45 Member<br />RAI Council 1946-47 Member<br />RAI Council 1947-48 Member<br />RAI Council 1948-49 Member<br />RAI Council 1949-50 Member<br />RAI Council 1951-52 Member<br />RAI Council 1952-53 Member<br />RAI Council 1954-55 Member<br />RAI Council 1955-56 Member<br />RAI Council 1956-57 Member<br />RAI Council 1958-59 Member<br />RAI Council 1959-60 Member<br />RAI Council 1960-61 Member<br />RAI Council 1961-62 Vice President<br />RAI Council 1962-63 Vice President<br />RAI Council 1963-64 Vice President<br />RAI Council 1964-65 Vice President<br />RAI Council 1966-67 Vice President<br />RAI Council 1967-68 Vice President<br />RAI Council 1968-69 Vice President
=== House Notes ===
1933.01.24 proposed by T.A. Joyce, seconded by H.J. Braunholtz 24 Jan. 1933
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Diploma student at the Pitt- Rivers Museum; joined the Dept of Ethnography, The British Museum, 1932, Keeper 1953-69; in 1957 he excavated the site of Las Cuevas in Honduras. In an unpublished memoir written after he retired, he documented the evacuation of the ethnography collection to Drayton House in Northamptonshire during the war years.<br /><br />Joyce retired in 1938 and H.J. Braunholtz became keeper. He was effectively in charge of the ethnographic collections throughout the Second World War. Adrian Digby joined the department in 1932 and, in an unpublished memoir written after he retired, vividly documented the evacuation of the ethnography collection to Drayton House in Northamptonshire during the war years.<br />Adrian Digby became keeper in 1953. He was chiefly interested in the Maya, although he had responsibility for the archaeology and ethnography of the whole of the Americas. He excavated the site of Las Cuevas in Belize in 1957. William Fagg, keeper from 1969, had joined the department just before the Second World War and went on to become an eminent authority in African art. [British Museum]<br />Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? (TV Series) (Himself) / Himself / Himself - Deputy Keeper of Ethnography, British Museum <br />- The Abbey Art Centre and Museum (1956) ... (Himself) <br />- University Museum of Pennsylvania (Transatlantic Exchange) (1954) ... Himself <br />- Sheffield City Museum (1954) ... Himself <br />- The Liverpool Museum (1954) ... (Himself) <br />- The Australian Museum (1954) ... (Himself) <br />
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
Maya jades
=== House Publications ===