Herbrand Sackville, 9th Earl De La Warr

Herbrand Edward Dundonald Brassey Sackville, 9th Earl De La Warr PC JP (born June 20, 1900 in Bexhill-on-Sea , East Sussex , † January 28, 1976 in London ) was a British peer and politician of the Conservative Party . From 1937 to 1938 he held the office of Lord Seal Keeper , then from 1938 to 1940 Minister of Education and 1940 briefly Minister of Public Works. Most recently he was Minister of Post from 1951 to 1955.

Life

Family origins and siblings

Sackville was the youngest of three children and the only son of Gilbert Sackville, 8th Earl De La Warr and his wife, Lady Muriel Agnes Brassey, a daughter of Thomas Brassey , who was a member of the House of Commons for 18 years and as Baron Brassey in 1886 was raised to the hereditary nobility, as well as his wife, the writer Anna Brassey . Baron Brassey later served as Governor of Victoria from 1895 to 1900 and Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports from 1908 to 1913, and was promoted to Earl Brassey in 1911 .

His eldest sister, Lady Myra Idina Sackville , was married five times, her first marriage from 1913 to 1919 to Euan Wallace , a captain of the Life Guards Reserve , who later served as a member of the House of Commons and between 1939 and 1940 Minister of Transport. Just a few weeks after the divorce from her first husband, she remarried in 1919 to Captain Charles Gordon, from whom she divorced in 1923. In her third marriage, she married Josslyn Hay in 1923 , who inherited the title of 22nd Earl of Erroll in 1928 and thus became a member of the House of Lords and was murdered in Kenya in 1941 under unknown circumstances . However, they were divorced again in 1930. In 1930 she was her fourth marriage to the lawyer Donald Carmichael Haldeman, from whom she was divorced in 1938. In her fifth and final marriage, she was married from 1939 to 1946 to Vincent William Soltau, a flight lieutenant in the Royal Air Force .

His second oldest sister Lady Avice "Avie" Ela Murial Sackville was married twice. Her first marriage was between 1918 and 1931 with the later Major General Stewart Graham Menzies , who was Director General of the foreign intelligence service MI6 ( Secret Intelligence Service ) between 1939 and 1952 . In 1931 she married Captain Frank Fitzroy Spicer in her second marriage.

House of Lords and Junior Minister

Sackville completed his education at the renowned Eton College . After his father was killed in a naval battle on December 16, 1915 during the First World War , he inherited his nobility titles as 9th Earl De La Warr with the subordinate titles 9th Viscount Cantelupe , 15th Baron De La Warr and 4 . Baron Buckhurst . After completing school he became a reserve officer with the Royal Naval Reserve and was a member of the House of Lords until his death after coming of age. In 1924 he served as Lord-in-Waiting of King George V and in 1925 as Justice of the Peace of Sussex .

The Earl De La Warr was again Lord-in-Waiting of King George V from 1929 to 1931 and held his first government offices in the government of Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald . At first he was from June 1929 Parliamentary until June 1930 Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of War (Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State to the War Office ) and then, between June 1930 and August 1931 Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Ministry of Agriculture or from August 1931 Parliamentary until June 1935 Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and fishing. In addition, he was Captain of the Honorable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms from 1929 to 1931 and thus commander of one of the ceremonial bodyguards of King George V. At the same time, from 1932 to 1934 he was mayor of Bexhill-on-Sea , a seaside resort in East Sussex county .

During the tenure of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin , he was first Parliamentary Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Education (Board of Education) in June 1935 and was then from 1936 to 1937 Parliamentary Undersecretary of State in the Colonial Office ( Colonial Office ) . In 1936 he was also appointed a member of the Privy Council (PC).

Keeper of the Lord Seal, Minister of Education and Post

On May 28, 1937, the Earl De La Warr was appointed by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain to his National Government and was initially Lord Privy Seal until October 27, 1938 . He then took over on October 27, 1938 from James Stanhope, 7th Earl Stanhope, the office of Minister of Education (President of the Board of Education) , while John Anderson took over the office of Lord Seal Keeper.

In a further reshuffle of the Chamberlain Cabinet, he was appointed Minister for Public Works (First Commissioner of Works) on April 3, 1940, succeeding Herwald Ramsbotham , who in turn took over from him as Minister of Education. He held the office of Minister for Public Works until May 10, 1940.

The Earl of De La Warr, who was a member of the French Legion of Honor , was appointed Postmaster General by Prime Minister Winston Churchill on November 5, 1951 and held this ministerial office until the end of Churchill's term on April 5, 1955. In 1956 he was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Sussex and made Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE).

Marriages and offspring

Herbrand Sackville was married twice. His first marriage was on December 30, 1920, with Diana Helena Leigh, daughter of Henry Gerard Leigh, a captain of the 1st Regiment of the Life Guards . This marriage resulted in two sons and a daughter.

The eldest son, William Herbrand Sackville , who served as an officer in the Parachute Regiment and was Executive Director of Rediffusion Ltd from 1974 to 1979 , inherited his title of nobility on his death in 1976 and thereby became a member of the House of Lords. He was also the father of the current 11th Earl De La Warr, William Herbrand Sackville .

The second son Thomas Henry Jordan Sackville came as a pilot in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve on May 14, 1943 in an air battle killed when he and his fighter of the type -51 Mustang P before the Netherlands was shot down coast. The only daughter Lady Katharine "Kitty" Pamela Sackville was the wife of the journalist Frank Thomas Robertson Giles , who was first deputy editor-in-chief between 1967 and 1981 and then from 1981 to 1983 editor-in-chief of The Sunday Times . He resigned from this position because of the Hitler diary affair .

After the death of his first wife on March 29, 1966, the Earl De La Warr married Sylvia Margaret Harrison on March 1, 1968 at the Caxton Hall registry office. This marriage remained childless.

Web links

• Entry in Cracroft's Peerage
• Entry in Leigh Rayment Peerage
• Herbrand Edward Dundonald Brassey Sackville, 9th Earl De La Warr on thepeerage.com , accessed August 19, 2015.

predecessor	Office	successor
Gilbert Sackville	Earl De La Warr 1915-1976	William Sackville