SACKVILLE, Lionel Cranfield (1688-1765)

Family and Education

b. 18 Jan. 1688, o. s. Charles Sackville, 6th earl of Dorset and earl of Middlesex, and 2nd w. Lady Mary Compton (d.1691), da. James Compton, 3rd earl of Northampton. educ. Westminster; travelled abroad (Holland, Germany, Italy) 1705–7; C.J. Phillips, Hist. of the Sackville Family, ii. 3; Add. 61134, f. 150; Add. 61534, ff. 31, 35, 70. DCL Oxf. 1730. m. Jan. 1709, Elizabeth (d.1768), da. of lt. gen. Walter Colyear, 3s. 3da. (2 d.v.p.). A. Collins, Mems. of the antient and noble fam. of Sackville (1741), pp. 594–5. KG 1714. d. 10 Oct. 1765; will 10 June 1755–6 Dec. 1764, pr. 7 Nov. 1765. TNA, PROB 11/913.

Offices Held

Gent. of the bedchamber 1714 – 17; ld. steward 1725 – 30, 1737 – 45; ld. lt. [I], 1730 – 37, 1750 – 55; ld. pres. of the Council 1745 – 51; master of the horse 1755 – 57.

Warden of the cinque ports 1708–13, Post Boy, 4–7 Dec. 1708, 11–13 June 1713. 1714 – 17, 1728 – 65; freeman, Hythe 1711 HP Commons, 1690–1715, ii. 765.; high steward Stratford-upon-Avon 1708, Phillips, Sackville Family, ii. 4; London Gazette, 30 June-4 July 1713. Tamworth 1729; A. Jacob, A Complete English Peerage (1766–9), i. 428. custos rot. Kent 1724 – 65; ld. lt. Kent 1746 – 65; v.-adm. of the coast 1725 – 65.

Parlimentarian

SACKVILLE, Lionel Cranfield (1688-1765)

Associated with: Knole, Kent; Withyam, Suss.

Likenesses

oil on canvas by G. Kneller, 1710–12, NPG 3205; oil on canvas by G. Kneller, 1717, National Trust, Knole, Kent; oil on canvas by G. Kneller, 1719, Government Art Collection.

Author

Eagles, Robin

Volume

Lords 1660-1715

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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