Lionel Sackville Sackville-West, 2d Baron Sackville-West (1827–1908)

Diplomatist. Employed in the Foreign Office from 1845. Attaché to the British legation at Lisbon, 1847; Naples, 1848; Stuttgart, 1852; Berlin, 1853. Secretary of the legation at Turin, 1858; Madrid, 1864. Secretary of the embassy at Berlin, 1867; Paris, 1868. British envoy at Buenos Aires, 1873; Madrid, 1878; Washington 1881–8. Retired in 1889. Succeeded his brother as the second Baron Sackville-West in 1888. Knighted, 1885.