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SACKVILLE, CHARLES, 2ND DUKE OF DORSET, eldest son of Lionel Cranfield Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset (qv); b. 6 Feb 1710/1; adm. May 1720; took part of Cassius in play Julius Caesar, acted by the boys “at the Theatre over against the Opera House” Jan 1727/8 (Life and Correspondence of Mrs Delany, 1st series, i, 158); styled Earl of Middlesex 1720-65; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 27 Nov 1728; MA 1730; Grand Tour (Italy) 1731-3, 1736-8; member, Society of Dilettanti 1736; MP East Grinstead 1734-41, Sussex 14 Jan 1742-7, Old Sarum 17 Dec 1747-54, East Grinstead 1761 – 10 Oct 1765; a Lord of the Treasury 23 Dec 1743 – Jun 1747; Master of the Horse to Frederick, Prince of Wales 6 Oct 1747-51; succ. father as 2nd Duke of Dorset 10 Oct 1765; Lord Lieut., Kent, from 17 Dec 1765; Privy Councillor 10 Feb 1766; an extravagant man of fashion who spent large sums of money on the management of operas; played cricket for Kent in 1734 and 1735, and an enthusiastic supporter of the game; writer of verse, and author of A Treatise concerning the Militia, 1752; m. 30 Oct 1744 Hon. Grace Boyle, Mistress of the Robes to Augusta, Princess of Wales, dau. of Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon (I); d. 5 Jan 1769. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.