Richard Sackville, 5th Earl of Dorset ( 1622 - 1677 )

Birth: Dorset House, London, England (16 September 1622) Death: Knole, Sevenoaks, Kent (27 August 1677) Burial: Withyham, Sussex Career: MP for East Grinstead (1640-1643); imprisoned by Parliament (1642) and fined £1500 (1644); Commissioner of the Militia for Middlesex (1660); joint Lord Lieutenant of Middlesex (1660-1670); joint Lord Lieutenant of Sussex (1670-1677); Member of the Commission for the Trial of the Regicides Membership: Fellow Election Date: 3/05/1665 Proposers: James Compton, 3rd Earl of Northampton Council: 1672.