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Robert Sackville-West, 7th Baron Sackville

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The Lord Sackville
Baron Sackville
Arms of Baron Sackville
Tenuresince 27 March 2004
BornRobert Bertrand Sackville-West
(1958-07-10) 10 July 1958 (age 66)
Spouse(s)
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(m. 1985⁠–⁠1992)​
Margot MacAndrew
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(m. 1994)​
IssueFreya Sackville-West
Arthur Sackville-West
Edie Sackville-West
HeirArthur Sackville-West
ParentsHugh 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

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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

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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

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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

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  • 2010 Spears Book Awards Family History of the Year Inheritance: The Story of Knole and the Sackvilles

References

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  1. ^ Aristocrats make bid for equality? That's a new one, retrieved 26 January 2015
  2. ^ Illiterate? Criminal record? Welcome to the House of Lords, retrieved 26 January 2015
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Baron Sackville
2004–present 		Incumbent
Heir apparent:
Hon. Arthur Sackville-West


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