Given name: Thomas
Family name: Sackville, earl of Dorset
Birth date: 1536
Death date: 19 April 1608
Nationality: English
Family relations
father: Richard Sackville
wife: Cecily Sackville (from 1554)
son: Robert Sackville
son: Thomas Sackville
son: William Sackville
daughter: Jane Browne
daughter: Anne Glemham
daughter: Mary Neville
Language: English
Education
Grammar school of Sullington, Sussex
Inner Temple
Religion: Protestant
Honours
Knighthood: 8 June 1567
M.A., Cambridge: 30 August 1571
M.A., Oxford: 6 January 1592
Literary period: Tudor
Occupations
Member of Parliament
Commissioner for ecclesiastical causes
Lord treasurer
Chancellor of the University of Oxford: 17 December 1591
Residences
Buckhurst, Sussex
Withyham, Sussex: 1536
Withyham, Sussex: 1569
Knole, near Sevenoaks, Kent: 1603
Buried at: Sackville Chapel, parish church of Withyham
First RPO edition: 1997