The Lord Sackville | |
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Baron Sackville | |
Tenure | since 27 March 2004 |
Born | Robert Bertrand Sackville-West 10 July 1958 |
Spouse(s) | |
Issue | Freya Sackville-West Arthur Sackville-West Edie Sackville-West |
Heir | Arthur Sackville-West |
Parents | Hugh Rosslyn Inigo Sackville-West Bridget Eleanor Cunliffe |
Robert Bertrand Sackville-West, 7th Baron Sackville DL (born 10 July 1958), is a British publisher, author and guardian of Knole in Kent, which has been a Sackville house since 1603 and is now owned by the National Trust.
The eldest son of Hugh Rosslyn Inigo Sackville-West and Bridget Eleanor Cunliffe, he inherited the title of Baron Sackville on 27 March 2004 on the death of his uncle, Lionel Sackville-West, 6th Baron Sackville.
Career[edit]
Sackville-West was educated at Winchester College and read history at Magdalen College, Oxford. He later gained an MBA at the London Business School before working as a management consultant. In 1984, he founded Toucan Books, of which he is now chairman, a packaging company which has worked with publishers on both sides of the Atlantic for more than three decades.
He was a governor of Sevenoaks School from 1995 until 2008, serving as chairman from 2002. He is currently a governor of the Knole Academy in Sevenoaks and a member of the International Baccalaureate UK board. He is also the executive chairman of several Sackville family businesses associated with property, works of art and heritage assets.
Marriages and children[edit]
He first married the journalist Catherine Bennett in 1985 (marriage dissolved 1992), who has written against the Peerage system and what she considers the privileges of the nobility.[1][2] He secondly married Margot Jane MacAndrew in 1994. With his second wife he has three children:
- Hon. Freya Sackville-West (born 6 August 1998)
- Hon. Arthur Sackville-West (born 25 February 2000)
- Hon. Edie Sackville-West (born 5 May 2003)
Books[edit]
He is the author of two books on the story of his family.
- Inheritance: The Story of Knole and the Sackvilles (2010)
- The Disinherited: A Story of Family, Love and Betrayal (2014)
Awards[edit]
- 2010 Spears Book Awards Family History of the Year Inheritance: The Story of Knole and the Sackvilles
References[edit]
- ^ Aristocrats make bid for equality? That's a new one, retrieved 26 January 2015
- ^ Illiterate? Criminal record? Welcome to the House of Lords, retrieved 26 January 2015
- Who's Who 2008, A & C Black, 2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007
- Sackville-West, Robert. Inheritance. London : Bloomsbury, 2010. ISBN 978-1-4088-0338-7
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