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4TH EARL OF DORSET EDWARD SACKVILLE (...

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 433 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EARL OF See also:DORSET See also:EDWARD See also:SACKVILLE (1591-1652)  , son of the and See also:earl, succeeded his See also:brother See also:Richard, the 3rd earl(1590-1624), in See also:March 1624 . He had attained much notoriety by killing See also:Edward See also:Bruce, and See also:Lord Kinloss, in a See also:duel, in See also:August 1613, the See also:place in the See also:Netherlands where this encounter took place being called Bruceland in quite See also:recent times, and in 162o he was one of the leaders of the See also:English contingent which fought for See also:James I.'s son-in-See also:law, See also:Frederick V., elector See also:palatine of the See also:Rhine, at the See also:battle of the See also:White See also:Hill, near See also:Prague . In the See also:House of See also:Commons, where he represented See also:Sussex, See also:Sackville was active in defending See also:Bacon and in advocating an aggressive policy with regard to the recovery of the Rhenish See also:Palatinate; twice he was See also:ambassador to See also:France, and he was interested in See also:Virginia and the Bermuda Islands . Under See also:Charles I. he was a privy councillor and lord See also:chamberlain to See also:Queen Henrietta Maria . He was frequently employed by the See also:government from the See also:accession of Charles until the outbreak of the See also:Civil See also:War, when he joined the See also:king at See also:York, but he disliked the struggle and was See also:constant in his efforts to secure See also:peace . At See also:Oxford he was lord chamberlain to the king and lord See also:president of his See also:council, but Charles did not altogether approve of his pacific attitude, and is said on one occasion to have remarked to him " Your See also:voice is the voice of See also:Jacob, but your hands are the hands of See also:Esau." He died on the 17th of See also:July 1652 . His wife See also:Mary (d . 1645), daughter of See also:Sir See also:George Curzon, was governess to the sons of Charles I., the future See also:kings Charles II. and James II . His See also:character is thus summed up by S . R .

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