Charles Sackville-Germain, 5th Duke of Dorset, KG, PC (27 August 176729 July 1843), known as Charles Sackville between 1767 and 1770, as Charles Germain between 1770 and 1785, and as The Viscount Sackville between 1785 and 1815, was a British peer,

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and

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politician. He served as

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between 1821 and 1827 and again briefly in 1835.

Background

Born Charles Sackville, he was the eldest son of Lord George Sackville. His father changed the family surname to Germain in 1770 and was created

Viscount Sackville Viscount Sackville, of Drayton in the County of Northampton, was a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1782 for the soldier and politician Lord George Germain. He was made Baron Bolebrooke, in the County of Sussex, at the s ...

in 1782. Dorset re-incorporated the former surname as a double-barrelled one later in life.

Career

Germain succeeded his father in the viscountcy in 1785, inheriting

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. In 1815 he also succeeded his cousin in the dukedom of Dorset. In 1821 he was sworn of the Privy Council and appointed

under

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. Serving in that office until 1827 and again briefly under

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from January to April 1835, he was also appointed a

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in 1826.

Death and memorial

Dorset died unmarried and childless in 1843 and his titles, a viscountcy and dukedom, became extinct. His memorial is in St Peter's Church, Lowick,

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– a black lettering-etched white marble chest-tomb by

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Estates

Charles had succeeded in 1785 to the vast bulk of the parish of Lowick, including the grand 13th-century-core

, replete with three towering eagles on top of its bulky gate posts. Drayton had come into the family from

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, who died without issue in 1718, leaving it to his wife Lady Elizabeth Germain. On her death in 1769 Charles' father, Lord George Sackville (later created 1st Viscount Sackville), inherited the estate. He took her surname by Act of Parliament of 1770 and was seised of the additional manor of Lowick and right to nominate the parish priest (

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) at the

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of the parish in 1771, when about were wholly privatized to him. Charles was also dealing with five Northamptonshire manors by recovery in 1788 and 1791. He or his predecessor in the dukedom had in addition bought more modest nearby Pyels ( Vaux) manor,

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between 1800 and 1843. On his death in 1843, all the estates passed to his niece Mrs. Caroline Harriet Stopford Sackville (née Sackville) (died 1908) and had descended by 1930 into the hands of Nigel Victor Stopford Sackville, the only surviving son of her second son.'Parishes: Woodford', in A History of the County of Northampton: Volume 3, ed. William Page (London, 1930), pp. 255–262. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/northants/vol3/pp255-262 ccessed 17 September 2017

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