Robert Bertrand Sackville-West, 7th Baron Sackville DL (born 10 July 1958), is a British publisher, author and guardian of

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in Kent, which has been a Sackville house since 1603 and is now owned by the

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. The eldest son of Hugh Rosslyn Inigo Sackville-West and Bridget Eleanor Cunliffe, he inherited the title of

Baron Sackville Baron Sackville, of Knole in the County of Kent, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1876 for the Honourable Mortimer Sackville-West, with remainder, failing heirs male of his body, to his younger brothers the Hon. ...

on 27 March 2004 on the death of his uncle,

Lionel Sackville-West, 6th Baron Sackville Lionel Bertrand Sackville-West, 6th Baron Sackville (30 May 1913 – 27 March 2004) was a stockbroker and member of the British peerage. In 1965, he became the sixth Baron Sackville. Early life Born in London, Sackville-West was the eldest son o ...

Career

Sackville-West was educated at

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and read history at

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. He later gained an MBA at the

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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

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from 1995 until 2008, serving as chairman from 2002. He is currently a governor of the

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in Sevenoaks and a member of the

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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

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. 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

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

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

References

* ''Who's Who 2008'', A & C Black, 2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 * Sackville-West, Robert. ''Inheritance''. London : Bloomsbury, 2010. 1958 births Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Deputy Lieutenants of Kent Living people Robert Sackville-West, 07 Baron Sackville

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