Lord John Sackville
Personal information | |
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Full name | John Philip Sackville |
Born | 22 June 1713 |
Died | 3 December 1765 Tour du Pain, Switzerland | (aged 52)
Source: CricInfo, 10 August 2008 |
Lord John Philip Sackville (22 June 1713 – 3 December 1765) was the second son of Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset. He was a keen cricketer who was closely connected with the sport in Kent.
He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Tamworth from 1734 to 1747.[1]
Cricket career
Sackville was first recorded as a cricketer in 1734 when he and his brother,
In 1744 Sackville challenged an England side to play against his team. Kent won, in part thanks to Sackville himself taking a catch to dismiss Richard Newland. The catch was eulogised in Cricket, An Heroic Poem (1745) by James Love. The match details were recorded and preserved in what is now cricket's second oldest known scorecard.[5][6]
Family and personal life
Sackville was a notorious rake in his youth. He was compelled to marry Lady Frances Leveson-Gower, daughter of John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower and sister of the Duchess of Bedford in 1744, after she gave birth to his child at Woburn. They eventually had two sons and one daughter.[7] The couple's parents were furious, and the Prince of Wales compensated Sackville for any loss of income, making him a lord of his bedchamber in 1745, and thus securing him as a recruit to his party.[8]
Two of Sackville's children were:
- John Frederick Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset (25 March 1745 – 19 July 1799).[9]
- Mary Sackville (b. 1 April 1746).[10] Married Sackville Tufton, 8th Earl of Thanet in 1767.
Sackville was also disappointed when
According to his descendant Robert Sackville-West, 7th Baron Sackville in his book Inheritance he became insane later in life, dying in Geneva, Switzerland, aged 52. However, his brother lived long enough to allow John Philip's son to inherit his title and become the next Duke of Dorset.
References
- ^ "Leigh Rayment's Historical list of MPs: constituencies beginning with "T2"". Archived from the original on 15 July 2018. Retrieved 1 December 2009.
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: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - H T Waghorn, Cricket Scores, Notes, etc. (1730–1773), Blackwood, 1899
- Timothy J McCann, Sussex Cricket in the Eighteenth Century, Sussex Record Society, 2004
- ^ Buckley, p.15
- ^ Arthur Haygarth, Scores & Biographies, Volume 1 (1744–1826), Lillywhite, 1862
- ^ CricketArchive – scorecard. Retrieved on 14 July 2009.
- ^ SACKVILLE, Lord John Philip (1713–65) Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715–1754, ed. R. Sedgwick, 1970. Only one son is known to peerage directories so their other son may have been born out of wedlock.
- ^ a b c d History of Parliament
- ^ The Register of Births & Baptisms in the Parish of St James within the Liberty of Westminster Vol. IV. 1741-1760. 24 April 1745.
- ^ The Register of Births & Baptisms in the Parish of St James within the Liberty of Westminster Vol. IV. 1741-1760. 24 April 1746.
- ^ Mackinnon, Daniel (1833). Origin and Services of the Coldstream Guards. Vol. II. London: Richard Bentley. pp. 482–483.
Bibliography
- F S Ashley-Cooper, At the Sign of the Wicket: Cricket 1742–1751, Cricket Magazine, 1900
- G B Buckley, Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket, Cotterell, 1935
- Arthur Haygarth, Scores & Biographies, Volume 1 (1744–1826), Lillywhite, 1862
- Timothy J McCann, Sussex Cricket in the Eighteenth Century, Sussex Record Society, 2004
- H T Waghorn, Cricket Scores, Notes, etc. (1730–1773), Blackwood, 1899
External links
- SACKVILLE, Lord John Philip (1713–65 Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715–1754, ed. R. Sedgwick, 1970.