Lord Buckhurst | |||||
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Born | 13 June 1979 | ||||
Alma mater | Eton College Newcastle University (BA (Hons)) | ||||
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Children | 2 | ||||
Parent(s) | William Sackville, 11th Earl De La Warr Anne Pamela Leveson | ||||
Family | De La Warr | ||||
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William Herbrand Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst (born 13 June 1979), is the son and heir of William Sackville, 11th Earl De La Warr. He was styled Lord Buckhurst on 9 February 1988, upon his father's succession to the earldom. [1]
Buckhurst is a godson of Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon. [1] He was educated at Eton, and graduated from Newcastle University with a BA (Hons) in Classical Studies. [2] [3]
He began his career in the City of London in 2002 at Laing & Cruickshank Investment Management, which was acquired by UBS Wealth Management in 2004. [4] [2] In 2006, he joined the investment firm Quilter Cheviot, where he managed an investment fund and private client portfolios. [2] [5] Buckhurst left Quilter Cheviot in 2018. [6]
In September 2009, Buckhurst became engaged to Countess Xenia Tolstoy-Miloslavsky, daughter of author and historian Count Nikolai Tolstoy-Miloslavsky, distantly related to author Leo Tolstoy. [5]
The marriage took place on 5 February 2010, at the Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Dormition in London. [7] A son and heir, William Lionel Robert Sackville, was born on 24 January 2014. [8] Their second child, a daughter, Victoria Elizabeth Anne Sackville, was born on 6 June 2016. [9]
Earl De La Warr is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1761 for John West, 7th Baron De La Warr.
Baron Sackville, of Knole in the County of Kent, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1876 for the Honourable Mortimer Sackville-West, with remainder, failing heirs male of his body, to his younger brothers the Hon. Lionel and the Hon. William Edward. Sackville-West was the fourth son of George Sackville-West, 5th Earl De La Warr and Elizabeth Sackville-West, Countess De La Warr and 1st Baroness Buckhurst, younger daughter and co-heir of John Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset. On the death of the latter's cousin, Charles Sackville-Germain, 5th Duke of Dorset, in 1845, the dukedom and its subsidiary titles became extinct and the Sackville estates passed through Elizabeth to the West family who assumed the additional surname of Sackville by Royal licence. By arrangement, Mortimer Sackville-West succeeded to a substantial part of the estates, including Knole in Kent, which is still the seat of the Barons Sackville.
The title Baron Buckhurst has been created twice; once in the Peerage of England and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was first created in 1567 for Thomas Sackville, MP for East Grinstead and Aylesbury. He was later created Earl of Dorset in 1604. That creation became extinct in 1843.
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