Lord Buckhurst | |||||
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Born | 13 June 1979 | ||||
Alma mater | Eton College Newcastle University (BA (Hons)) | ||||
Spouse | Countess Xenia Tolstoy-Miloslavsky (m. 2010) | ||||
Children | 2 | ||||
Parent(s) | William Sackville, 11th Earl De La Warr Anne Pamela Leveson | ||||
Family | De La Warr | ||||
Baron Buckhurst | |||||
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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]