| LC control no. | n 50029852 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Dorset, Thomas Sackville, Earl of, 1536-1608 |
| Variant(s) | Buckhurst, Thomas Sackville, Baron, 1536-1608 Dorset, Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of, 1536-1608 Sackville, Thomas, 1st Earl of Dorset, 1536-1608 Sackville, Thomas, Earl of Dorset, 1536-1608 Sackvyle, Thomas, Earl of Dorset, 1536-1608 |
| See also | England and Wales. Lord High Treasurer (1599-1608 : Buckhurst) |
| Associated place | London (England) Oxford (England) |
| Birth date | 1536 |
| Death date | 1608-04-19 |
| Place of birth | Withyham (England) |
| Place of death | Westminster (London, England) |
| Field of activity | Great Britain--Politics and government Literature |
| Affiliation | University of Oxford England and Wales. Lord High Treasurer |
| Profession or occupation | Great Britain--Officials and employees Litterateurs |
| Found in | His John S. Farmer, 1906. His The poetical works of Thomas Sackville, 1859: t.p. (Thomas Sackville) InU/3 cent. drama files (usage: Thomas Sackvyle) DNB (Sackville, Thomas, 1st Earl of Dorset and Baron Buckhurst; b. 1536; d. 4/19/1608) Feldman, Sabrina. The apocryphal William Shakespeare, 2011: page 45 (Thomas Sackville, 1536-1608, one of the leading statesmen of his time and the greatest poet of his generation; second cousin of Queen Elizabeth I) Wikipedia, viewed September 18, 2013: article, Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset (English statesman, poet, and dramatist; born 1536 in Buckhurst, Sussex [now a hamlet in the civil parish of Withyham]; died April 19, 1608 in Westminster, London; 1558-1563, M.P. for Westmoreland, East Grinstead, and Aylesbury; 1561, co-author of the first English drama written in blank verse; 1567, created Baron Buckhurst; 1591-1608, Chancellor of the University of Oxford; 1599-1608, Lord High Treasurer; 1604, created Earl of Dorset) The Peerage, website, viewed September 18, 2013 (Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, b. 1527 [sic], d. 19 April 1608; 1st Baron of Buckhurst and 1st Earl of Dorset) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online, viewed September 18, 2013 (Sackville, Thomas, first Baron Buckhurst and first Earl of Dorset, c. 1536-1608, poet and administrator; appointed Lord High Treasurer by Elizabeth I and re-appointed after her death by James I; "representative of his period and its culture as a renaissance man: poet, scholar, traveller, courtier, statesman, a lover and patron of music and fine art. He was a religious man with the experience and pragmatism to tolerate his neighbours' (and his family's) freedom of conscience in private, and not only a loyal servant of the crown but also a discreet man of personal charm and moral integrity") |
| Associated language | eng |
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