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 152 DORSET. X. 170G. 7 and 1. Lion'el-Craxfield (Sackville), Earl of Dukedom Dorset, Earl or Middlesex, Sec, only a. and h. by 2d wife( b. IS Jany. 1687/8 ; being styled Loud Buckhurst, till 1706 ; Lord L 1720. Warden of the Cinque Ports, 1703-12 and 1714-17 ; Envoy to Hanover, Aug. 1714. to notify the death of Queen Anne to George I, to whom, that year he was Lord of the Bedchamber, P.C., and bearer of the sceptre with the cross, at the Coronatiou, 20 Oct. ; el. K.G., Id Oct. and inat. 9 Dec. 1714. He was cr. DUKE OF DORSET, 17 June 1720^) ; Lord Steward of the Household, 1725-30 and 173S-1745, being in the interval, Lord Lieut, ok Ireland, 17:10-37; Lord Presidentof the Council, 1741-51 ami, again, Lord Lieut, ok Ireland, 1751-55. Master of the Horse, 1755-60. At the Coronation of Ceo. II, 11 Oct. 1727, he was Lord High Steward of England, and bearer of King Edward's Crown, having been one of the Lords Justices of the Realm, during the absence of the King in Hanover. 1725, 1727, 1740, 1743, 1745, 1748 and 1752. He was cr. D.C.L. of Oxford, 15 Sep. 1730 ; Lord Lieut, of Kent, 1746 ; Major-General in the Army, 1755. He m. Jany. 170S/9, Elizabeth, da. of Lieut-Gen. Walter-Philip Colykar, br. to David, 1st Eari, OF Portmore [S.] He d. atKuole, 10 and was bur., 19 Oct. 1765, at Withyaui afsd. His widow who was Maid of Honour to Queen Anne, anil first Lady of the Bed- chamber and Mistress of the Robes to Caroline the Queen Consort, both as Princess of Wales and Queen, d. 12 June 1768 and was bur. ISth at Withyaui. Dukedom. 2 and S. Charles (Sackville), Duke of II I I**. Dorset, b. and h., 6. 6 and bap. 25 Feb. 1710/1 at St. ' > 1 ' 60. Martin's in the Fields, Midx. ; being styled Lord BuOK- ■karlclom. hurst till 1720, and Karl ok Middlesex 1720-65 ; ed. at XI. J Westm. School j uialrie. at Oxford (Ch. Ch.) 27 Nov. 1728 J cr. M.A. (his father being then cr. D.C.L.) 15 Sep. 1730 ; M.P. for East Grinstead 1734-12, for Sussex 1712-47, for Saruni 1747-54, and for East Grinstead (again) 1761-65 ; a Lord of the Treasury, 1743-47 ; Master of the Horse to the Prince of Wales, 1747-51 ; P.O., 176G ; Lord Lieut, co. Kent, 1766. He in., in Arlington Street, in 1744, Grace, only da. and h. of Richard (Boyle), 2d and last Viscount Shannon [1.], by his 2d wife, Grace, da. and coheir of John StKHOOSB, of Netherhall, co. Cumberland. She, who was Mistress of the Robes and a Lady of the Bedchamber to the Princess of Wales from 1743 till her death, tl. 10 and Was £>«>'. 17 May 1763 at Walton-on-Thames, Surrey. His Grace d. s.p. 5 and was bur. 11 Jany. 1769 at Withyaui. Admon. 19 May 1770. Dukedom. -| 8 an d 9. John-Frederick (Sackville), Duke III. ^ ok Dorset, &c., nephew and h., being only s. and h. of ■p, ,-. ^ 1769. Lord John-Philip Sackville, by Frances, da. of John ii-anaom. (Gower), 1st Earl Gower, which John-Plulip was next XII. J br. to the last Duke and d. 3 Dec. 1765 aged 52. He was b. 25 March and bap. at St. James' Westm. 24 April 1745 ; ed at Westm; M.P. for Kent 1768-69; Lord Lieut, co. Kent, 1769-97; Col. in the Army (during service) 1779 ; P.O., 17S2; Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard, 17S2-83 ; Ambassador to Paris, 1783-89 ; el. KG. 9 April 1788, but never installed ; Lord Steward of the Household, 1789. He m. 4 Jany. 1790, at Knole in Seveuoaks, Arabella-DiaDa, 1st da. and coheir of Sir Charles CorE, 2J Bart, (of Brewern), by Catherine, da. of Sir Cecil Bisiiorr, Bart. He d. 19 July 1799 aged 54 and was bur. the gloomy one of King William. He had as much wit as his first Master or, his contemporaries, Buckingham and Rochester, without the Royal want of feeling, the Duke's want of principles or the Earl's want of thought." Bishop Burnet writes of him, when above 50 (Dean Swift's remarks thereon being given in italics), as " of great learning [small or none] extremely witty, &c., one of the pleasantest companions in the world [not of late years, but a very dull one] when he likes his company. He is very fat and troubled with the spleen.'' He will any how be remembered as having had for some time the well known Nell Gwynn under his " protection " (who spoke of him as her Charles the First) and as the author of the spirited song, " To all ye Ladiea now at land, we men at sea indite," &c. ( a ) The preamble to tho patent is printed in " Collins," vol. ii, p. 175.