Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset

Thomas Sackville, Baron Buckhurst and first earl of Dorset ( * 1536 in Worthing, Sussex, † April 19, 1608 in London ) was an English statesman, dramatist and poet in the Renaissance.

Life

Sackville was born in Worthing and was a cousin of Anne Boleyn. In 1553 he settled in London and was elected to Parliament two years later. Among other positions, he also occupied the post of representative government processes, and it was he, of the Scottish Queen Mary Stuart I. proclaimed the death sentence. In 1599 he became Chancellor of the Exchequer. His most important works he wrote in the 50s of the 16th century. The most important are the collection "A mirror for magistrates " and the tragedy " Gorboduc ". The tragedy, the earliest English drama in blank verse, was written together with Thomas Norton 1562 before the Queen of England, Elizabeth I, premiered. Its mansions, Knole House in Kent and me Priory, are very well known in England.