William Herbrand Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst (born 13 June 1979), is the son and heir of

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. He was styled Lord Buckhurst on 9 February 1988, upon his father's succession to the earldom. Buckhurst is a godson of

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. He was educated at

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, and graduated from

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with a

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in Classical Studies. He began his career in the

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in 2002 at Laing & Cruickshank Investment Management, which was acquired by

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in 2004. In 2006, he joined the investment firm Quilter Cheviot, where he managed an investment fund and private client portfolios. Buckhurst left Quilter Cheviot in 2018. In September 2009, Buckhurst became engaged to Countess Xenia Tolstoy-Miloslavsky, daughter of author and historian Count Nikolai Tolstoy-Miloslavsky, distantly related to author

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. The marriage took place on 5 February 2010, at the

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in London. A son and heir, William Lionel Robert Sackville, was born on 24 January 2014. Their second child, a daughter, Victoria Elizabeth Anne Sackville, was born on 6 June 2016.

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