Richard Sackville, 3rd Earl of Dorset (1589–1624), Lord Lieutenant of Sussex, first husband of Lady Anne Clifford
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Richard Sackville, 5th Earl of Dorset (1622–1677), English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Middlesex, and Sussex
Sir Thomas Penistone was among thirty gentlemen in the retinue of Richard Sackville, 3rd Earl of Dorset - “one of the seventeenth century’s most accomplished gamblers and wastrels”.
Little is known of his childhood, but by the early 1620s he was in service with Richard Sackville, 3rd Earl of Dorset at Knole House in Kent.
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While he was at Florence he received the news of the death of his elder brother Richard Sackville, 3rd Earl of Dorset, which took place on 28 March 1624 and he thereupon became fourth Earl of Dorset.