Part 3 of notable people in Dorset old photos

Today's collection of formidable individuals includes a Second World War codebreaker, a deer catcher and a remarkable naturalist, whose studies of birds and the natural world were much lauded.

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Colonel Stephen Digby - appointed Queen Charlotte’s vice-chamberlain in 1782. Digby cared for the King, George III, during his illness and accompanied him to Weymouth in 1789

Charlotte Digby, nee Fox, married Edward Digby, son of the 5th Lord Digby of Sherborne Castle in 1729 and forged an important union between the two dynasties

Deer catcher Harry Good who led the ‘substantial gentlemen’ who hunted in the evening at Cranborne Chase

Doreen Valiente - whose family lived for generations in Cerne Abbas was a Bletchley Park codebreaker and a friend of the Queen Mother

George Burt - a public-works contractor and businessman from Swanage, who managed the construction company Mowlem, founded by his uncle John Mowlem.

George Damer, Viscount Milton (1746-1808) as Colonel of the Dorset Volunteer Rangers - During the American War of Independence he served in the army under Lord Cornwallis. MP for Dorchester

Henry Joseph Moule - artist and the first curator of Dorset County Museum

John Gould of Lyme Regis, known as the Bird Man. He made a collection of 5000 skins of animals and another remarkable collection of humming birds which he sold to the British Museum for £3000.

Robert Frampton of Pimperne who became the Bishop of Gloucester

St Candida - patron saint of Dorset

Thomas Rackett the Younger - Thomas Rackett the Younger (1756-1840), oil on canvas, painted by George Romney (1734- 1802), c.1768.