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DORSET 429 1799. His widow C) w;., 7 Apr. 1801 (spec, lie), at Dorset House, St. Margaret's, Westm., Charles (Whitworth), Earl Whitworth, who ^. (shortly before her) 13 May 1825, aged 70. She, who was b. 1769, d. of apoplexy, at Knole, i, and was bur. 10 Aug. 1825, at Withyam, the funeral expenses being estimated at £2,000. M.l. Will pr. Sep. 1825. DUKEDOM. IV. EARLDOM XIII. 1799- 4 and 10. George John Frederick (Sack.- ville), Duk.e of Dorset, ^t'c, only s. and h., b. 15 Nov., and bap. 30 Dec. 1793, at Knole afsd., being sly/ed Earl of Middlesex till 1799; ed. at Harrow; matric. at Oxford (Ch. Ch.) 23 Oct. 1 8 10, cr. M.A. 30 June 18 13. He d. unm., 14 Feb. 18 15, aged 21, being killed by a fall while out hunting at Lord Powerscourt's, near Killiney, co. Dublin, he being then on a visit to his stepfather (Lord Whitworth), the Viceroy. He was bur. 3 Mar. 1815 at Withyam afsd.C") M.I. Admon. Aug. 181 5. DUKEDOM. V. EARLDOM. XIV. 815 to 843- 5 and II. Charles (Sackville - Germain), DuK.E OF Dorset[i72o],Earl OF Dorset [1604], Earl of Middlesex [1675], Viscount Sackville OF Drayton [1782], Baron Bucichurst [1567], Baron Cranfield [1675], ^"i Baron Bole- BROOK.E [1782], cousin and h. male, being s. and h. of George, ist Viscount Sackville of Dray- Grafton's mistress, was under his protection. She afterwards married Lord Maynard. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, writes of him in 1777, "I have always looked upon him as the most dangerous of men, for with that beauty of his, he is so unaffected, and has a simplicity and persuasion in his manner that makes one account very easily for the number of women he has had in love with him." He ruined Elizabeth, Countess of Derby (born Hamilton), and broke up that household among others. From Queen Victoria's Diary, 24 July 1838, it appears that Melbourne told her of this circumstance, and added that the Duke " was a very handsome and agreeable man, with a great deal of gallantry." As to his love for " cricket," see vol. i, Appendix H. He was a member of the Hambledon Club, and one of the com- mittee which drew up the original laws of the M.C.C. In a book called T/k Prophecies of De/phos (1791) he is described as "a most admirable cricket-player — more cannot be said of him as he is not in possession of any brains." He appears in 1776, "The noble Cricketer and Miss G . . . . m," in the notorious tete-a-tete portraits in Town and Country Mag., vol. viii, p. 513, for an account of which see Appendix B in the last volume of this work. His yr. da. m. Earl de la Warr and took the name Sackville into that family. See Buckhurst. V.G. (^) She claimed the precedence of a Duchess at a state banquet at Carlton House given by the Prince Regent, which was refused to her on account of her remarriage; following the precedent of Juliana, sometime Dowager Duchess of Leeds, who, being (1761) the wife of the Earl of Portmore [S.], claimed to walk as a Duchess at the Coronation of George III, but was refused such status. C') He was a schoolfellow of Lord Byron, who addressed some verses to him beginning "Dorset, whose early steps with mine have strayed." V.G.