His only surviving son, Thomas Sackville, was a statesman, poet and dramatist and notably served as Lord High Treasurer between 1599 and 1608.

[2] The family seat was Knole House, Kent, and the Sackvilles previously owned Buckhurst Park and Croxall Hall.

She was the wife of George West, 5th Earl De La Warr, who assumed the additional surname of Sackville.

[2] The plot line of David Gurr's thriller A Woman Called Scylla assumes fictionally that the Dukedom of Dorset did not become extinct but survived into the 20th century.

He is mentioned as being born in 1886, having been severely wounded at the Battle of Ypres in World War I and later devoting himself to gardening.

Other members of the Duke's family also have a big share in the plot, particularly his daughter Mary, an SOE agent in World War II captured and tortured to death by the Nazis.