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 2 SACKVILLE. Samuel VanaeKer Sambrooke, 3d Bart), by Elizabeth, da. of Sir William Forester. She d. of measles, 15 Jan. 177S, aged 74, and was bur. at Withynm, co. Sussex. (") He (who suffered greatly from stone), d. of inflammation of the bowels, 2(i Aug. 1785, aged 70, at Stouelaud lodge af«d.('>) Will pr. Sen. 1785 and Dec. 1799. II. 17S5, 2. CnARLEs (Sackville-Geumaix), Viscount Sackviu.e to of Drayton-, and Baron Bolk.rrookk, s. and fa„ b. 27 Aug. 1707 ; 1813. W*. to the peerage, 2(> Aug. 17S5, and sue. his cousiu, 30 years later, 11 Feb. 1815, as 5th Duke of DORSET, fcc. He d. unm. 29 July 1813, aged 75, when all his honours became extinct.^) See fuller particulars under " Dorset " Dukedom, cr. 1720 ; ex. 1843. SACKVILLE OF KNOLK. Barony. 2. The Hon. Mortimer Sackville- West, formerly I 1876 (1820-13) West, 4th, but, at the time of his elevation to the peerage, 2d surv. s. of Ueorge John (Sackville- West, formerly West), 5th Karl Delawarr, by Elizabeth, suojure Baroness BCOKHURST (so it. 1861), 2d and yst. da. of John Frederick (Sackville), 3d Diikb ok Dorset, and (14 Feb. 1815), coheir to her br., the 1th Duke. He was b. 22 Sep. 1820 ; sometime (1845-53) Capt. 1st Gren. Guards; Gent. Usher Quarterly Waiter, 1811 ; Groom of the Privy Chamber and Groom in Waiting, 1852 ; extra. Lord in Waiting, 187t)-S8 ; sue. to Knole and other considerable estates of the Sackville family in the counties of Kent, Sussex, Warwick, and Gloucester,^ 1 ) 23 April 1873, on the accession of his next elder br. to the Karldom of Delawarr, bur, not having inherited therewith the Barony of Buckhurst (as apparently had been the intention of the Crown in (he singular and anomalous creation of that title, which see) was (in consolation) rr. 2 Oct. 187o BARON SACKVILLE OF KNOLE, co. Kent, with a spec, rem., failing heirs male of his body, to his two younger brothers, Liouel-Sackville, and William-Edward respectively in like manner. He Nt. 6rstly 11 Jan. 1847, at St. Geo. Han Si]. Fanny Charlotte, yst. da. of Major Gen. William Dickson, C.B., E. I.C.S., of Beenham, Berks, by Harriet, da. of Lieut. GeD. Sir Thomas Dallas, G.C.B. She d. 19 Jan. 1870, at 15 Chester sipiare. He m. secondly, 12 June 1S73, at Northaw, Herts, Elizabeth, 2d but 1st surv. da. of Charles Wilson Fabeh, of Northaw afsd. She il. 23 Jan. 18S8 at the Queen's Hotel, Norwood, co. Surrey, and was bur. (from Knole) at Withyam, co. Sussex. He d. s.p. (within 9 months of that date) 1 Oct. 18SS, aged CS, at Knole, and was bur, at Withyam afsd. ( n ) "She was a good wife and mother and a sensible woman." [H. Walpole.] ( b ) " He had persisted to act in public till the uncommon excellence of his abilities had surmounted the load of contempt under which he had laid" says H. Walpole in his " Last Journals." His duel in Dec. 1770 with "Governor" Johnstone tended greatly to restore his reputation, and gave rise to H. Walpole's remark that " what- ever Lord George Saekville may have been, Lord George Germain is a hero." As to his abilities they appear to have beeu above the average, and tho' haughty and distant in public, he was in private life most affable and entertaining. There is a long account of him in "Collins" (vol. vi, pp. 308 — 317), by Richard Cumberland, the dramatist. His portrait "after Sir J. Reynolds " is engraved in " Doyle." ( c ) The estate of Drayton in Northamptonshire (consisting, in 1883, of 4,6(i7 acres of the annual value of £8,723) passed to his niece, Caroline Harriet, wife of William Bruce-Stopford, and only da. and h. of his only br., the Hon. George Sackville Germain. She and her husband thereupon took by Royal lie. tho additional surname of Sackville. ( d ) These had been devised by his maternal aunt, Mary, Dow. Countess Amherst with the intention of their corresponding to what was meant to be the devolution of the Barony of Buckhurst, and after a long law suit it was decided that they devolved on the persons indicated accordingly ; the succession of their late Owner to the Earl- dom of Delawarr, depriving him (according to this decision) of the Buckhurst estates tho' not of tho peerage of Buckhurst (which the testatrix had meant them to accompany) in which he had already taken his seat.