Robert Sackville, 2nd Earl of Dorset
Robert Sackville, 2nd Earl of Dorset (1561–1609) was an English aristocrat and politician, with humanist and commercial interests.
Life
He was the eldest son of
He was admitted to the Inner Temple in 1580 but not called to the bar, and was elected to the House of Commons in 1585 as member for Sussex, aged 23, by his father's influence.[4] In 1588 he sat for Lewes, but represented the county again in 1592–3, 1597–8, 1601, and 1604–8. He was a prominent member of the Commons, serving as a chairman of several committees. At the same time, he engaged in trading ventures and held a patent for the supply of ordnance.[5]
He succeeded to the earldom of Dorset on the death of his father on 19 April 1608. He inherited from his father manors in Sussex, Essex, Kent, and Middlesex, the principal seats being
Death and legacy
Dorset survived his father less than a year, dying on 27 February 1609 at
Family
Dorset married first, in February 1580,
- Richard Sackville, 3rd Earl of Dorset (18 March 1589 – 28 March 1624)
- Edward Sackville, 4th Earl of Dorset (1591 – 17 July 1652)
- Anne (d.25 September 1664),Edward Seymour, Viscount Beauchamp, and, secondly, Sir Edward Lewis (d.1630) by whom she had issue.[7] Her monument with effigies of herself and her second husband survives in Edington Priory Church in Wiltshire.[8]
- Cecily, married Sir Henry Compton
Lady Margaret died on 19 August 1591; Robert Southwell, who never met her, published in her honour, in 1596, Triumphs over Death, with dedicatory verses to her surviving children.[9]
Dorset married, secondly, on 4 December 1592, Anne (d. 22 September 1618), daughter of Sir John Spencer of Althorp, and widow of, first, William Stanley, 3rd Baron Monteagle, and, secondly, Henry Compton, 1st Baron Compton. In 1608–9 Dorset found reason to complain of his second wife's misconduct, and was negotiating with Archbishop Richard Bancroft and Lord Ellesmere for a separation from her when he died.
Notes
- ^ Lawrence V. Ryan, Roger Ascham (1963), pp. 252–3.
- ^ Alfred W. Pollard, "Claudius Hollyband and his French Schoolmaster and French Littelton, Transactions of the Bibliographical Society 13.1 (1915): 253-72.
- Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500–1714. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
- ^ J. E. Neale, The Elizabethan House of Commons (1963), p. 63 and p. 293.
- ^ a b J. E. M. "SACKVILLE, Robert (1561-1609), of Bolbrooke and Buckhurst, Suss. and Knole, Kent". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
- ^ See 6-page church booklet: Smith, Doris Seth, Anne Lady Beauchamp, undated, p.4
- ^ "LEWIS, Richard (C.1627-1706), of Edington Priory, Wilts. And the van, Glam. | History of Parliament Online".
- ^ See 6-page church booklet: Smith, Doris Seth, Anne Lady Beauchamp, undated
- ^ Scott R. Pilarz, Robert Southwell and the Mission of Literature, 1561-1595 (2004), p. 204.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Sackville, Robert". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
