Major-General Charles Richard Sackville-West, 6th Earl De La Warr KCB (13 November 1815 – 23 April 1873) was a British Army officer.
De La Warr committed suicide by drowning himself in the River Cam four year later; unmarried, his title and estates were inherited by his brother.
Sackville-West served in the British Army and was appointed aide-de-camp and military secretary to Sir Hugh Gough in India in 1845.
[4] Lord Delaware[n 1] died in April 1873, aged 57, by drowning himself in the Cam.
[5][6][n 2] He was unmarried and was succeeded in the earldom by his next-youngest brother, Reginald, Lord Buckhurst.