Edward Sackville (died 1714)

Edward Sackville (c. 1640 – 1714) was an English soldier and landowner, rising to the rank of major general, briefly a member of parliament, and after the Glorious Revolution a Jacobite.

At the outbreak of the Civil War, Sir John Sackville was living at Knole as factotum for the 4th Earl of Dorset, and raised money and arms for the King.

[2] At the first general election of 1679, in the midst of the Exclusion Crisis, Sackville was elected to the First Exclusion Parliament as a member for East Grinstead, beating both Henry Powle and a son of Lord Chief Justice Scroggs, but he was prevented from playing any part in debates, as a result of accusations by Titus Oates, whom he knew.

Nevertheless, on a motion by John Maynard, it was resolved unanimously to expel him from the House of Commons, to send him to the Tower of London, and to recommend King Charles II to cashier him from the army.

[1] Sackville surrendered his commission to the outgoing king at Rochester on 19 December 1688, becoming active as a Jacobite conspirator.

Their son Thomas Sackville was gentleman of the bedchamber to James Francis Edward Stuart in exile, but died in 1732, and no descendants are known.