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  Sackville, Thomas, 1st earl of Dorset - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
SACKVILLE, THOMAS, 1ST EARL OF DORSET [Sackville, Thomas, 1st earl of Dorset] 1536-1608, English statesman and poet.
After the accession of James I, he was appointed lord treasurer for life and created earl of Dorset (1604).
Sackville is important in English literature as the author, with Thomas Norton and others, of Gorboduc (first acted 1561), a drama in blank verse, generally considered the earliest English tragedy.
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Robert Rich, second Earl of Warwick, was the eldest son of Robert (1559/60-1618-19), the first Earl Warwick and third Baron Rich, and great-grandson of Richard, first Baron Rich, chancellor of the Court of Augmentations to Henry VIII, founder of the family fortunes, a Puritan and a contemporary of John Preston.
Thus, the third earl of Dorset, as consulted on "colonisation" represented, as it were, two powerful families who had been affronted by Henry VIII's treatment of his wives; the Parrs and the Boleyns.
The Earl of Carlisle was a dependent of Buckingham, and as proprietor of the Caribbean, Carlisle became an unexpected winner in colonisation stakes, since neither he nor his kin had ever had any interest in maritime activity.
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 Sackville, Charles, 6th earl of Dorset - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
SACKVILLE, CHARLES, 6TH EARL OF DORSET [Sackville, Charles, 6th earl of Dorset] 1638-1706, English poet and courtier.
After the restoration, he became a member of the intimate circle of young rakes and wits at the court of Charles II, writing epigrams, caustic satires, and songs, of which the best known is the ballad "To All You Ladies Now at Land." In 1652 he was given the courtesy title Lord Buckhurst.
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