Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Sackville, Thomas
Sackville, Thomas, o.s. Sir Richard; traditionally of Hart Hall, Oxford, and of St. John's Coll., Cambridge, created M.A. 30 Aug., 1571, and incorporated at Oxford about 6 Jan., 1591-2, chancellor of this university 17 Dec., 1591, until 1608; a student of the Inner Temple 1555; M.P. Westmorland 1558, East Grinstead 1559, Aylesbury 1563, until knighted and created baron of Buckhurst, Sussex, 8 June, 1567, P.C. 1585, k.g. 1589, high treasurer 1599, and created Earl of Dorset 13 March, 1603-4; died suddenly at the council table at Whitehall, 18th or 19th April, 1608, buried 26 May, in Westminster abbey; father of Thomas, Henry, and William 1582, Robert 1576. See Ath. ii. 30; Cooper, ii. 484; Foster's Parliamentary Dictionary; & Fasti, i. 256.