Narnian ChroniclesA local companion
Character

Digory Kirke

Also known as Digory, Professor Kirke, the Professor

A London boy whose attempt to save his mother leads him through the Wood between the Worlds and into the creation of Narnia. In later life he is the Professor who shelters the Pevensies.

This encyclopedia follows the whole story. Plot details from all seven chronicles may appear below.

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Primary sources

In the chronicles

These links are generated from exact-name appearances in the supplied novels. Each opens the cited paragraph in the local reader.

The Magician's Nephew30 cited passages⌄
  1. Chapter I · paragraph 7"Digory," said the boy.Open passage →
  2. Chapter I · paragraph 9"It isn't half so funny as Polly," said Digory.Open passage →
  3. Chapter II · paragraph 1… was so sudden, and so horribly unlike anything that had ever happened to Digory even in a nightmare, that he let out a scream. Instantly Uncle Andrew's hand was over his mouth. "None of that!…Open passage →
  4. Chapter II · paragraph 2As Digory said afterwards, the horrible meanness of getting at a chap in that way, almost made him sick. But of course he…Open passage →
  5. Chapter III · paragraph 1… instantly. Then, for a moment, everything became muddled. The next thing Digory knew was that there was a soft green light coming down on him from above, and darkness below. He didn't seem to…Open passage →
  6. Chapter III · paragraph 2…s. This wood was very much alive. When he tried to describe it afterwards Digory always said, "It was a rich place: as rich as plum-cake."Open passage →
  7. Chapter IV · paragraph 2"What a queer place!" said Digory.Open passage →
  8. Chapter IV · paragraph 5"It's very funny weather here," said Digory. "I wonder if we've arrived just in time for a thunderstorm; or an eclipse."Open passage →
  9. Chapter V · paragraph 1…as. One of the robed figures, the furthest-off one of all, the woman whom Digory thought so beautiful, was rising from its chair. When she stood up they realised that she was even taller than …Open passage →
  10. Chapter V · paragraph 3"I think it must have been me," said Digory.Open passage →
  11. Chapter VI · paragraph 2"I'm not touching you!" said Digory.Open passage →
  12. Chapter VI · paragraph 4… by the way, another thing about the Rings which Uncle Andrew hadn't told Digory because he didn't know it himself. In order to jump from world to world by using one of those Rings you don't n…Open passage →
  13. Chapter VII · paragraph 10…ecame speechless. She drove him out of the room and out of the house; and Digory came running down the stairs just in time to see the front door close behind them.Open passage →
  14. Chapter VII · paragraph 12"Oh, Master Digory," said the housemaid (who was really having a wonderful day), "I think Miss Ketterley's hurt herself somehow." …Open passage →
  15. Chapter VIII · paragraph 2"Now's my chance," thought Digory. He darted between the horse and the railings and began going forward. If only the brute would stay still for a…Open passage →
  16. Chapter VIII · paragraph 3"Quick, Digory. This must be stopped," said a voice beside him. It was Polly, who had rushed down the moment she was allowed o…Open passage →
  17. Chapter IX · paragraph 1…ther. Patches of rougher and more bristling green appeared in the valley. Digory did not know what they were until one began coming up quite close to him. It was a little, spiky thing that gre…Open passage →
  18. Chapter IX · paragraph 2…d afterwards, was that you weren't left in peace to watch it all. Just as Digory said "Trees!" he had to jump because Uncle Andrew had sidled up to him again and was just going to pick his poc…Open passage →
  19. Chapter X · paragraph 14"Look here," said Digory to Polly, "I've got to go after him--Aslan, I mean, the Lion. I must speak to him."Open passage →
  20. Chapter X · paragraph 16"I've got to," said Digory. "It's about Mother. If anyone could give me something that would do her good, it would be him."Open passage →
  21. Chapter XI · paragraph 1…e animals knew nothing about clothes. They thought that Polly's frock and Digory's Norfolk suit and the Cabby's bowler hat were as much parts of them as their own fur and feathers. They wouldn…Open passage →
  22. Chapter XI · paragraph 31Strawberry trotted on with Digory on his back till the noise of the other animals died away, and now the little group of Aslan and his chosen cou…Open passage →
  23. Chapter XII · paragraph 1Digory kept his mouth very tight shut. He had been growing more and more uncomfortable. He hoped that whatever happene…Open passage →
  24. Chapter XII · paragraph 3"Well, I don't see what I can do," said Digory. "You see, the Queen ran away and----"Open passage →
  25. Chapter XIII · paragraph 1"Wake up, Digory, wake up, Fledge," came the voice of Polly. "It has turned into a toffee tree. And it's the loveliest morning."Open passage →
  26. Chapter XIII · paragraph 3"Hurrah!" said Digory. "But I'm going to have a dip first." He rushed through a flowering thicket or two down to the river's edge. Ha…Open passage →
  27. Chapter XIV · paragraph 1"Well done," said Aslan in a voice that made the earth shake. Then Digory knew that all the Narnians had heard those words and that the story of them would be handed down from father to…Open passage →
  28. Chapter XIV · paragraph 3Digory did as he was told. Everyone had grown so quiet that you could hear the soft thump where it fell into the mud.Open passage →
  29. Chapter XV · paragraph 9"Great Scott!" thought Digory, "I believe the whole adventure's taken no time at all."Open passage →
  30. Chapter XV · paragraph 12"Can you get the other rings, Poll?" said Digory. "I want to go to Mother."Open passage →
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe6 cited passages⌄
  1. Chapter I · paragraph 2As soon as they had said good night to the Professor and gone upstairs on the first night, the boys came into the girls' room and they all talked it over.Open passage →
  2. Chapter I · paragraph 17… it would be raining!" said Edmund. They had just finished breakfast with the Professor and were upstairs in the room he had set apart for them--a long, low room with two windows looking out in one d…Open passage →
  3. Chapter V · paragraph 16"I don't care what you think, and I don't care what you say. You can tell the Professor or you can write to Mother or you can do anything you like. I know I've met a Faun in there and--I wish I'd sta…Open passage →
  4. Chapter V · paragraph 18…orning they decided that they really would go and tell the whole thing to the Professor. "He'll write to Father if he thinks there is really something wrong with Lu," said Peter; "it's getting beyond…Open passage →
  5. Chapter XVII · paragraph 40…of the story if it hadn't been that they felt they really must explain to the Professor why four of the coats out of his wardrobe were missing. And the Professor, who was a very remarkable man, didn'…Open passage →
  6. Chapter XVII · paragraph 41And that is the very end of the adventures of the wardrobe. But if the Professor was right it was only the beginning of the adventures of Narnia.Open passage →
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader1 cited passage⌄
  1. Chapter I · paragraph 4…ry hard for an exam and he was to spend the holidays being coached by old Professor Kirke in whose house these four children had had wonderful adventures long ago in the war years. If he had still been…Open passage →
The Last Battle10 cited passages⌄
  1. Chapter V · paragraph 21"Well now you know who we are, Sire," he said. "And it was like this. The Professor and Aunt Polly had got all us friends of Narnia together----"Open passage →
  2. Chapter V · paragraph 24"By the Lion's Mane," cried Tirian. "Those two! The Lord Digory and the Lady Polly! From the dawn of the world! And still alive in your place? The wonder and the glory of it! …Open passage →
  3. Chapter XIII · paragraph 15"It was much the same for us in the railway carriage," said the Lord Digory, wiping the last traces of the fruit from his golden beard. "Only I think you and I, Polly, chiefly felt that w…Open passage →
  4. Chapter XIII · paragraph 32"Yes," said the Lord Digory. "Its inside is bigger than its outside."Open passage →
  5. Chapter XIV · paragraph 16…ars who stood behind them. At last the sun came up. When it did, the Lord Digory and the Lady Polly looked at one another and gave a little nod: those two, in a different world, had once seen …Open passage →
  6. Chapter XIV · paragraph 29"I saw it begin," said the Lord Digory. "I did not think I would live to see it die."Open passage →
  7. Chapter XV · paragraph 30"More like the real thing," said the Lord Digory softly.Open passage →
  8. Chapter XV · paragraph 36"The Eagle is right," said the Lord Digory. "Listen, Peter. When Aslan said you could never go back to Narnia, he meant the Narnia you were thinking of. B…Open passage →
  9. Chapter XVI · paragraph 15…er Tirian nor Peter nor even the Eagle had ever seen before. But the Lord Digory and the Lady Polly had. "Do you remember? Do you remember?" they said--and said it in steady voices too, withou…Open passage →
  10. Chapter XVI · paragraph 17"Yes," said Digory, "and it seems to me as if it were only yesterday."Open passage →
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CharacterPolly Plummer

Digory’s resourceful friend and fellow traveller among the worlds.

→CharacterUncle Andrew

Digory’s vain and irresponsible uncle, an amateur magician who makes the rings that open travel between worlds.

→ObjectThe wardrobe

A wardrobe made from the wood of a tree grown from a Narnian apple.

→CharacterJadis

The last queen of Charn, brought into the Wood between the Worlds by Digory.

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