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2 unusual facts about John Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset


John Sackville

John Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset (1745–1799), cricket patron and ambassador to France

Olga Zherebtsova

Zherebtsova followed Lord Whitworth to England where she was shocked to learn about his prospective betrothal to the widow of John Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset.


1769 English cricket season

That visit to Calais may have been successful, unlike the one which the Duke of Dorset tried to organise in 1789: only to find that the French Revolution had begun!

John Sackville

Lord John Sackville (1713–1765), cricket patron and second son of the 1st Duke of Dorset, father of

John Sackville Labatt (1880 - 1952) president of the Labatt brewing company and a prominent kidnapping victim

Sir Charles Cope, 2nd Baronet

Both married aristocrats: Arabella Diana married John Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset, while Charlotte Anne married George Gordon, 5th Earl of Aboyne, who (after his wife's death) became the 9th Marquess of Huntly.


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