Mortimer Sackville-West, 1st Baron Sackville

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Mortimer Sackville-West, 1st Baron Sackville (1820-1 October 1888), was descended from Sir Richard Sackville, a Kentish gentleman, and a cousin of Queen consort Anne Boleyn.

A member of parliament and courtier under Henry VIII, Richard Sackville became chancellor of the court of augmentations in 1548 and was knighted in 1549. He amassed a great deal of wealth, and Sir Robert Naunton said his name should be fill-sack, rather than Sack-vile. He was on friendly terms with Roger Ascham, whom he advised to write his Scholemaster. In 1604 his son was created Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, and from him the earls and dukes of Dorset (q.v.) of the Sackville family were descended.

Mortimer Sackville-West was a younger son of George Sackville-West, 5th Earl De La Warr and Elizabeth Sackville, 1st Baroness Buckhurst, daughter of John Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset. When in 1873 his elder brother, Reginald Windsor Sackville, became 7th Earl De La Warr, Mortimer succeeded by arrangement to the extensive estates of the Sackvilles, including Knole Park, their beautiful Kentish residence, which had come to his family through his mother. In 1876 he was created Baron Sackville of Knole, and died on the 1st of October 1888.

His brother, [[Lionel Sackville-West, (1827-1908), succeeded him as 2nd baron.