Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset was an English statesman, poet, and dramatist. He was a Member of Parliament and Lord High Treasurer.
Background
Thomas Sackville was born in 1536 in Buckhurst, Sussex, Kingdom of England. He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge and Hertford College, Oxford. He first entered the House of Commons in 1558 as one of the knights of the shire for Westmorland. In 1559 he was elected for East Grinstead, and then in 1563 for Aylesbury.
Education
After an education which possibly included residence at both Oxford and Cambridge and the Inner Temple, Sackville entered Parliament in 1557 and launched upon a distinguished career of statesmanship. From 1563 onward Sackville was entrusted by Queen Elizabeth with many confidential missions.
Career
Sackville, Thomas, 16t earl of Dorset Thomas Sackville, 16t earl of Dorset, 1536–1608, English statesman and poet.
In 1586 he told Mary Queen of Scots of her sentence of death.
Elizabeth was angered at his conduct in a mission (1587) to the Low Countries, but he soon regained her favor and rose rapidly in rank.
After the accession of James I, he was appointed lord treasurer for life and created earl of Dorset (1604).
His most important poems are the"Induction"and the"Complaint of the Duke of Buckingham, "which were included in the second edition (1563) of The Mirror for Magistrates, a collection of verse tragedies in the form of dramatic monologues.
His works were edited by Reginald Sackville-West (1859).
See Gorboduc, ed.
by I. Cauthen, Jr. (1970); J. S. Farmer, ed. , The Dramatic Writings of Richard Edwards, Thomas Norton, and Thomas Sackville (1966).