Monarch George IV Monarch William IV Died July 29, 1843 Succeeded by The Duke of Leeds Role Politician | Preceded by The Duke of Montrose Name Charles 5th Party Tories | |
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Prime Minister The Earl of Liverpool Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel, Bt | ||
Charles Sackville-Germain, 5th Duke of Dorset (27 August 1767 – 29 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, courtier and Tory politician. He served as Master of the Horse between 1821 and 1827 and again briefly in 1835.
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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 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. In 1815 he also succeeded his cousin in the dukedom of Dorset. In 1821 he was sworn of the Privy Council and appointed Master of the Horse under Lord Liverpool. Serving in that office until 1827 and again briefly under Sir Robert Peel from January to April 1835, he was also appointed a Knight of the Garter 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, Northamptonshire — a black lettering-etched white marble chest-tomb by Richard Westmacott, large draped mantle, coronet on cushion with a human-size angel seated alongside, its only coloured feature is its shield.
Lowick, Northamptonshire
The vast bulk of the parish including grand 13th-century-core Drayton House (replete with three towering eagles on top of its bulky gate posts) came into the family from Charles, Earl of Berkeley, who died without issue in 1718. It was not until 1769 that a third son of a Duke of Dorset, Lord George Sackville (later Germain) created 1st Viscount Sackville inherited; he took his later surname by Act of Parliament of 1770 and was seised of the additional manor of Lowick and right to nominate the parish priest (advowson) at the inclosure of the parish in 1771, when about 1,150 acres (4.7 km2) were wholly privatized to him.
Charles succeeded in 1785, and was dealing with five Northamptonshire manors by recovery in 1788 and 1791. At his death unmarried in 1843 Drayton House and secondary let-out manors descended to his niece Caroline Harriet described below.
Charles or his predecessor in the dukedom bought more modest nearby Pyels (a.k.a. Vaux) manor, Woodford, Northamptonshire between 1800 and 1843. On his death in 1843, it passed to his niece Mrs Caroline H. Stopford Sackville (nee Sackville) (died 1908) passed by 1930 into the hands of Cnl. Nigel Victor Stopford Sackville, the only surviving son of her second son. It passed in 1997 to descendent Charles Lionel Stopford Sackville.