Family and Education
b. 1535 /36, prob. 1st s. of Richard Sackville II. educ. ‘Sullington’ (?Lullington) g.s.; ?Hart Hall, Oxf. ?Jesus, Camb.; I. Temple, adm. 1 July 1555, called, Camb. MA 1571; Oxf. incorp. 1592. m. 1555, Cecily, da. of (Sir) John Baker I of London and Sissinghurst, Kent, 4s. inc. Robert 3da.; ?1s. illegit. suc. fa. 21 Apr. 1566. Kntd. 8 June 1567; KG nom. 22 Apr., inst. 18 Dec. 1589. cr. Baron of Buckhurst 8 June 1567, Earl of Dorset 13 Mar. 1604.Aged 72 at death, G. Abbott, Funeral Sermon (1608), 16. Vis. Suss. (Harl. Soc. lxxxix), 95; DNB; CP; J. E. Mousley, ‘Suss. country gentry in the reign of Eliz.’ (London Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1956), 692; C.J. Phillips, Sackville Fam. i. 151, 242.
Offices Held
J.p. Kent, Suss. 1558/59; feodary, duchy of Lancaster, Suss. 1561; jt. ld. lt. Suss. 1569; ambassador to France 1571 – 72, 1591, to the Netherlands 1586, 1598; trier of petitions in the Lords, Parlts. of 1572, 1584, 1586, 1589, 1593, 1597; custos rot. Suss. 1573/74; chief butler, England 1590; high steward, Winchester c. 1590; jt. commr. of great seal Nov. 1591 – May 1592; chancellor, Oxf. Univ. 1591; ld. treasurer May 1599–d.
Parlimentarian
Main residence: London.
Volume
Commons 1509-1558
Web Title
SACKVILLE, Thomas (1535/36-1608)
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Oxford 1644
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