George Sackville, 4th Duke of Dorset

George John Frederick Sackville, 4th Duke of Dorset (15 November 1793 – 14 February 1815), styled Earl of Middlesex until 1799, was a British nobleman.

Portrait in academic robes by George Sanders

The only son of John Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset, and his wife Arabella, he was educated at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford, receiving an MA from the latter on 30 June 1813.

He was appointed High Steward of Stratford-on-Avon and was commissioned as a captain in the Sevenoaks and Bromley Regiment of Local Militia on 27 April 1813[1] and on 26 July the same year he was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant of the regiment.[2] However, he died in February 1815, of a fall from his horse while hunting on Killiney Hill in County Dublin. He had no children, so he was succeeded as duke by his cousin Charles Sackville-Germain. His estate of Knole passed to his sister Elizabeth Sackville-West, Countess De La Warr.

References
  1. London Gazette, 27 April 1813.
  2. London Gazette, 21 August 1813.
  • Doyle, James William Edmund (1885). The Official Baronage of England. London: Longmans, Green. p. 632. Retrieved 12 October 2008.
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