George Sackville, 4th Duke of Dorset

George John Frederick Sackville, 4th Duke of Dorset (15 November 1793 – 14 February 1815), styled Earl of Middlesex until 1799, was a British nobleman.

[1] He was educated at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford, receiving an MA from the latter on 30 June 1813.

[1] He was appointed High Steward of Stratford-on-Avon and was commissioned as a captain in the Sevenoaks and Bromley Regiment of Local Militia on 27 April 1813[2] and on 26 July the same year he was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant of the regiment.

[3] Lord Dorset died in February 1815, of a fall from his horse while hunting on Killiney Hill in County Dublin.

His estate of Knole passed to his sister Elizabeth Sackville-West, Countess De La Warr.

Portrait in academic robes by George Sanders
Memorial erected in Killiney