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He was born 26 Jan. After residing for some time in Paris with his father, he accompanied him to Ireland, and entered Trinity College, Dublin, where he took his degree as B. On 23 April he was appointed clerk of the council in Dublin, with Edward Dering as his deputy, and in July captain in the present 6th dragoon guards carabineers , then on the Irish establishment as the 7th or Lord Cathcart's horse.

This appears to have been Sackville's first military commission.

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His next was in , when he was promoted to lieutenant-colonel of the 28th foot now 1st Gloucester , of which Major-general Bragg [q. In he was returned to parliament as one of the members for Dover, and sat for that borough in each succeeding parliament up to his father being at the time lord warden of the Cinque ports. On 20 April Bragg's regiment was reviewed by the king at Kew, and at once embarked for Flanders.

It does not appear to have been at Dettingen, but Sackville was one of the officers appointed king's aides-de-camp, with the brevet of colonel, a few days after the battle, by an order dated 27 June Home Office Mil. Entry Book , xvii. Sackville took part in the succeeding campaigns, and at Fontenoy, 11 May , was shot in the breast at the head of his regiment, which penetrated so far into the enemy's camp that Sackville was laid in the French king's tent to have his wound dressed.

Bragg's was one of the regiments ordered home on the receipt of news of the rising in Scotland, and the Duke of Cumberland wrote on 20 Sept. Bragg's regiment was sent to Ireland, and on 9 April Sackville was appointed colonel of the 20th foot now 1st Lancashire fusileers , which he joined at Inverness just after the battle of Culloden.

He was stationed at Inverness, Dundee, and elsewhere in Scotland until the summer of , when he returned to Flanders, apparently in advance of his regiment ib. In he was sent by the Duke of Cumberland on a mission to Marshal Saxe ib. After the peace the 20th foot was at home, and the major commanding, James Wolfe, in a letter dated 2 Aug.

Conway fall to our lot,' he says, 'no possible successor can in any measure make amends for his loss' Wright , Life of Wolfe , pp. In November that year Sackville was transferred to the colonelcy of the 12th dragoons now lancers , and in to that of his old corps, the present 6th carabineers, by that time the 3rd Irish horse or carabineers.