Richard Sackville (escheator)
Sir Richard Sackville (ca. 1507 – 21 April 1566) of Ashburnham and Buckhurst in Sussex and Westenhanger in Kent; was an English administrator and Member of Parliament.[1]
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Career [edit]
He was under-treasurer of the exchequer, chancellor of the Court of Augmentations, Escheator of Surrey and Sussex in 1541–2 and was made custos rotulorum of Sussex in 1549 (till his death) and is the first listed Lord Lieutenant of that county from 1550 (till his death); he was also made steward of the archbishop of Canterbury's Sussex manors in 1554.[2][3]
He was elected as MP for Chichester in 1547, for Sussex in March 1553, 1559 and 1563 and for Portsmouth in 1554. He was knighted by 1549.
When the Court of Augmentations was dissolved in January 1554, Sackville, at the time losing most of his other paid positions, retired to the life of a Sussex gentleman, serving as JP.[2]
On the accession of Queen Elizabeth (her mother was his mother's cousin) his fortunes improved. He was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1559, holding the position until his death in 1566.[4]
Family [edit]
Richard Sackville was the eldest son of John Sackville (ca. 1484–1557) of Withyham and Chiddingly, Sussex, and his first wife, Margaret (d. ca. 1533), daughter of Sir William Boleyn of Blickling, and on his mother's side was cousin to Anne Boleyn.[2] In 1535 he married Winifred (d. 1586), the daughter of Sir John Brydges [Bridges or Brugge] (ca. 1460-1530), (Lord Mayor of the City of London in 1520) and Agnes Ayloffe.[5][6][7] They had a son Thomas, a favourite of Elizabeth I, and a daughter Anne.[5]
See also [edit]
Notes [edit]
- ^ Haslar. History of Parliament. p. 314.
- ^ a b c Sybil M. Jack, ‘Sackville, Sybil M. Jack, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 11 March 2011
- ^ Horsfield. The History, Antiquities and Topography of the County of Sussex. Vol. I. pp.79-83.
- ^ "Chancellors from 1559 to present". HM Treasury. Retrieved 2012-01-07.
- ^ a b Winifrid Brydges
- ^ Brydges. Collins Peerage. p. 710
- ^ The Sussex Weald. Agnes Ayloffe
Sources [edit]
- Brydges, Edgerton (1812). Collins Peerage of England. Volume VI. London: F.C. and J. Rivington, Otridge and Son et al.
- Hasler, P.W., ed. (1982). The History of Parliament, Commons, 1558–1603, Vol. III. Secker & Warburg. ISBN 0-11-887501-9.
- "History of Parliament SACKVILLE, Richard II (by 1507-66) of Ashburnham and Buckhurst Sussex". The History of Parliament. Retrieved 16 September 2011.
- Horsfield, Thomas Walker (1834 repr. 2003). The History, Antiquities and Topography of the County of Sussex. Bakewell: Country Books. ISBN 978-1-906789-16-9.
- Jack, Sybil M. (2004 online ed., Jan 2008). "Sackville, Sir Richard (d. 1566)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press. Retrieved 11 March 2011.
- "The Sussex Weald". Retrieved 2 September 2011.
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| Preceded by Sir John Baker |
Chancellor of the Exchequer 1559–1566 |
Succeeded by Walter Mildmay |
| Preceded by Sir William Shelley |
Custos Rotulorum of Sussex 1549–1566 |
Succeeded by Thomas Sackville |
