Sackville

American

[sak-vil] / ˈsæk vɪl /

noun

Thomas, 1st Earl of Dorset, 1536–1608, English statesman and poet.

Sackville British

/ ˈsækvɪl /

noun

Thomas, 1st Earl of Dorset. 1536–1608, English poet, dramatist, and statesman. He collaborated with Thomas Norton on the early blank-verse tragedy Gorboduc (1561)

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A real-life inspiration, Lady Idina Sackville, scandalized 1920s high society in the U.K. and its colony in Kenya.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2024

Home to the Sackville family since the 18th Century, it is not generally open to the public.

From BBC • Feb. 25, 2024

It was that first Sackville, ancestor of the current residents of Knole, who modeled the house on palaces he had seen in Europe, transforming it into a residence fit for entertaining the royal court.

From Washington Post • Oct. 21, 2021

The houses around us in our suburb of Halifax were small, single-story bungalows filled with young couples and single parents who couldn’t afford a house in Cavalier, the “nice” part of Lower Sackville.

From New York Times • May 14, 2021

There was a small newspaper, quarto size, called the "Novator" established or published at Halifax in 1809 by one James Bagnall in Sackville Street.

From History of Halifax City by Akins, Thomas B.

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