Dudley Digges was a member of the Committee of Safety established by the Virginia Conventions to act in the absence of the royal governor, he would become a lieutenant governor of Virginia and was one of the members of the Virginia Assembly captured by the British in a Charlottesville raid in 1781.
Dudley Digges served on the Committee of Safety established by the Virginia Conventions to govern during the absence of the royal governor, later becoming a lieutenant governor of Virginia. He was among those captured by the British during a raid on Charlottesville in 1781.