Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
The Earl De La Warr | |
Honorific-Suffix: | PC |
Order1: | Lord Chamberlain |
Term Start1: | 1841 |
Term End1: | 1846 |
Monarch1: | Victoria |
Primeminister1: | Sir Robert Peel, Bt |
Predecessor1: | The Earl of Uxbridge |
Successor1: | The Earl Spencer |
Term Start2: | 1858 |
Term End2: | 1859 |
Monarch2: | Victoria |
Primeminister2: | The Earl of Derby |
Predecessor2: | The Marquess of Breadalbane |
Successor2: | The Viscount Sydney |
Birth Name: | George John Sackville-West |
Birth Date: | 26 October 1791 |
Nationality: | British |
Party: | Conservative |
Alma Mater: | Brasenose College, Oxford |
Children: | 10 (see below) |
Parents: | John West, 4th Earl De La Warr Catherina Lyell |
George John Sackville-West, 5th Earl de la Warr, PC (26 October 1791 - 23 February 1869), styled Viscount Cantelupe until 1795, was a British courtier and Tory politician.
Sackville-West was the son of John West, 4th Earl De La Warr and Catherina Lyell, daughter of Henry Lyell, a naturalized British subject (born Henrik Leijel of the Swedish noble family Leijel, nr. 1531). He succeeded his father in the earldom in 1795 at the age of three.
Lord De La Warr served as Lord Chamberlain of the Household under Sir Robert Peel between 1841 and 1846 and under Lord Derby between 1858 and 1859. He was sworn of the Privy Council in 1841.
Lord De La Warr married Lady Elizabeth Sackville, daughter of John Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset, on 21 June 1813. They had ten children, nine of whom lived into maturity:
"The Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire as at Present Existing,..." by Edmund Lodge, 1892, p. 179