Background
He is the second son of William Sackville, 10th Earl De La Warr (d February 1988) and brother to William Herbrand Sackville, the 11th Earl De La Warr.
Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
He is the second son of William Sackville, 10th Earl De La Warr (d February 1988) and brother to William Herbrand Sackville, the 11th Earl De La Warr.
He was educated at Eton College and Lincoln College, Oxford.
Sackville fought Pontypool in 1979, being beaten by Labour's Leo Abse. He was MP for Bolton West from 1983 until he was defeated by Ruth Kelly at the 1997 general election. Sackville is a former Home Office minister.
In 1985 he started All-Party Committee Against Cults and 20 October 2000 he become first chairman of The Family Survival Trust (formerly Family Action Information Resource, FAIR), an anti-cult organisation. In 1997 he ended government funding for the independent research group Information Network Focus on Religious Movements (Inform). Funds were reinstated in 2000.
In his article for The Spectator (2004) he accused INFORM and its president Eileen Barker of “refusing to criticise the worst excesses of cult leaders”, and congratulated the Archbishop of Canterbury for declining to become a patron of INFORM. The allegations were described by INFORM as unfounded. In 2005 he was elected as Vice-President of European Federation of Centres of Research and Information on Sectarianism (FECRIS), an umbrella organization for anti-cult groups in Europe, and from 2009 he has served as its President. Sackville is the current CEO of the International Federation of Health Plans.
49th United Kingdom Parliament. 50th United Kingdom Parliament. 51st United Kingdom Parliament.