Coronet.—That of an earl.
[De Philotheia. Canticum canticorum, libri x. Friburgi Helvetiorum, 1609.]
Edward Sackville (born circ. 1590, died 17th July 1652) was the son of Richard Sackville, third Earl of Dorset. He was educated at Oxford, and succeeded his father in the Earldom in 1624. Mr. Sackville was Member of Parliament for Sussex, and in 1616 was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, and after his succession to the peerage he acted as Lord Lieutenant of Middlesex, and later of Sussex. In 1625 he was made a Knight of the Garter.
Lord Dorset carried one of the swords at the coronation of Charles I., and served as Chamberlain of the Household in 1644. He married Mary Curzon, governess to the king's children.
SAINT-GEORGE, SIR RICHARD, KNIGHT
Arms.—Quartered.
1. Arg., a chief az., over all a lion rampant gu., crowned or. St. George.
2. Arg., a cross flory gu. Trussell.