Richard Sackville (escheator)

Richard Sackville (escheator)

Sir Richard Sackville ("d." 1566) was an English administrator. He was under-treasurer of the exchequer, chancellor of the Court of Augmentations, Escheator of Surrey and Sussex in 1541–2. 1544 steward of the archbishop of Canterbury's Sussex manors, 1554, JP and custos rotulorum of Sussex.

Sir Richard Sackville was the eldest son of John Sackville of Chiddingley, Kent, and Anne, the daughter of Sir William Boleyn, who was a cousin of Anne Boleyn.

He married Winifred ("d." 1586), the daughter of Sir John Brydges (or Brugge), Lord Mayor of the City of London in 1520, and had "issue", three sons and one daughter, Anne, of whom married Gregory Fiennes, tenth Baron Dacre. She co-founded Emanuel School.

His only surviving son, Thomas Sackville became the first Earl of Dorset, who married the daughter of Sir John Baker.

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#S.L, "DNB" 1897
#HoP, Commons, 1558–1603, Vol. III p.314, HMSO 1982 [http://www.histparl.ac.uk/the-commons-1558-1603.html]
#Sybil M. Jack, ‘Sackville, Sir Richard (d. 1566)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/24447, accessed 18 July 2005]


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  • Richard Sackville — may refer to:* Sir Richard Sackville (escheator) (died 1566), English administrator *Richard Sackville, 3rd Earl of Dorset (1589–1624), Lord Lieutenant of Sussex, first husband of Lady Anne Clifford *Richard Sackville, 5th Earl of Dorset… …   Wikipedia

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