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DORSET 427 X. 1706. 7 and I. Lionel Cranfield (Sack.ville), Earl of niTi^FnoM Dorset, Earl of Middlesex, idc, only s. and h. by UUKt^UUm. ^^j ^,.^^^ ^ jg j^^^_ 1687/8; ed. at Westminster; sly/eJ 1. 1720. Lord BucKHURST till 1706; Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, 1708-12, 1 7 14-17, and 1728-65; Groom of the Stole and First Lord of the Bedchamber Sep. 1 7 14-1 7, when he was dismissed from the King's service; Envoy to Hanover, Aug. 17 14, to notify the death of Queen Anne to George I, and bearer of the sceptre with the cross at the Coronation, 20 Oct.; nom. K.G. 16 Oct., and inst. 9 Dec. 17 14; P.C. 16 Nov. 1 7 14. He, being a Whig, was ^r. DUKE OF DORSET, 17 June i72o;(") Vice Adm. of Kent 1725; Lord Steward of the Household, 1725-30 and 1737-45, being in the interval Lord Lieut, of Ireland, 1730-37 and, again, 1751-55; cr. D.C.L. of Oxford 15 Sep. 1730, on the same day that his son was cr. M.A.; Lord Pres. of the Council Jan. 1744/5 to June 1751; Master of the Horse, 1755-57. At the Coronation of George II, 11 Oct. 1727, he was Lord High Steward of Elngland, and bearer of King Edward's Crown, having been one of the Lords Justices of the Realm, during the absence of the King in Hanover, 1725, 1727, 1740, 1743, 1745, 1748 and 1752. Lord Lieut, of Kent, 1746-65. He m., privately, Jan. 1708/9, Elizabeth, C") da. and coh. of Lieut. Gen. Walter Philip Colyear, br. of David, ist Earl of Portmore [S.]. He d. at Knole, 10, and was l>ur. 18 Oct. 1765, at Withyam afsd., aged 77.C) His widow, who was Maid of Honour to Queen Anne, and first Lady of the Bedchamber and Mistress of the Robes to Caroline the Queen Consort, both as Princess of Wales and Queen, d. 12, and was i?ur. 18 June 1768, at Withyam. DUKEDOM. 1 2 and 8. Charles (Sackville), Duke of Dorset, s. and h., ^. 6, and I^ap. 25 Feb. . 1 7 10/ 1, at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, Midx.; ^' being sty/ed Lord Buckhurst till 1720, and Earl of Middlesex 1720-65; ed. at Westm. school; matric. at Oxford (Ch. Ch.) 27 Nov. 1728; cr. M.A. (his father being then cr. D.C.L.) him, when above 50 (Dean Swift's remarks thereon being given in italics), as " ot great learning [sma// or none], extremely witty, ^c, one of the pleasantest companions in the world [not of latt yean, hut a very dull one] when he likes his company. He is very fat and troubled with the spleen." He will anyhow be remembered as having had for some time the well-known Nell Gwynn under his "protection," and more creditably as the author of the spirited song, "To all ye Ladies now at land, we men at sea indite," Wc. He was a patron of literary men, e.g. Dryden, Wycherly, and Prior. (*) The preamble to the patent is printed in Collim, vol. ii, p. 175. C") "Mrs. C. is a lady who has made a great noise in the world; but I never thought she would come to make such a figure in it. The Lord she has snapt made a lampoon on her last winter. She is generally thought handsome." (Lady M. Montagu, Oct. 1709). V.G. (') Horace Walpole says of him {George II, vol. i, p. 98) that he " with the EARLDOM. XI.