Professor Digory Kirke (1888–1949) was a man from London who had travelled to Narnia during his childhood. He was notable for being a famous learned man, a great traveller, and - out of the Friends of Narnia - one of the only two who witnessed both the creation and destruction of Narnia. Digory was born as the only son of presumably wealthy parents - he once revealed that he had lived "all his life" in the country, had his own pony, and there was a river at the bottom of his home's garden. Unfor