Elizabeth Sackville-West, Countess De La Warr

Elizabeth Sackville-West, Countess De La Warr and 1st Baroness Buckhurst (11 August 1795 – 9 January 1870) was a British peeress.

Biography

Born Lady Elizabeth Sackville, she was the youngest daughter of John Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset and his wife, Arabella Cope. On June 21, 1813, she married George Sackville-West, 5th Earl De La Warr and they had nine children:

• Lady Mary Catherine (died 1900), married first, James Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury and had issue, and secondly Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby.
• George West, Viscount Cantelupe (1814–1850), died unmarried.
• Charles Sackville-West, 6th Earl De La Warr (1815–1873)
• Reginald Sackville, 7th Earl De La Warr (1817–1896)
• Elizabeth Sackville-West, Duchess of Bedford (1818–1897), married Francis Russell, 9th Duke of Bedford and had issue.
• Mortimer Sackville-West, 1st Baron Sackville (1820–1888)
• Lionel Sackville-West, 2nd Baron Sackville (1827–1908)
• Hon. William Sackville (1830–1905)
• Lady Arabella Diana (1835–1869), married Sir Alexander Bannerman, 9th Baronet.

On 27 April 1864, Lady De La Warr was created Baroness Buckhurst, of Buckhurst in the County of Sussex, by Queen Victoria with a special remainder to her second surviving son, Reginald and the heirs male of his body. Failing him, to her third and fourth son and their heirs male with a remainder that if any of the heirs inherited the barony and the earldom of De La Warr, then the barony should pass to a younger brother or younger son of the heirs male. Basically, the patent was worded to prevent the barony and earldom being held by the same person. However, when Reginald inherited the barony in 1870 and subsequently the earldom in 1873, his brother, Mortimer, tried to make a claim to the barony, but the House of Lords deemed the remainders invalid. Mortimer was instead created Baron Sackville as a consolation.

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