Thomas Sackville de Dorset
See also: Dorset
Thomas Sackville de Dorset (1536, Withian or Buckhurst, Sussex - April 19th 1608, London), Baron de Buckhurst and 1st Count de Dorset, large-treasurer of England, English poet.
It is resulting from a family Normande come in England with William the Conqueror, and was close relative of the queen Elisabeth I {{Re}} of England. Raised in 1567 with peerage with the title of Lord Buckhurst , it sat in this quality among the judges who condemned Marie Stuart. It was him whom one charged with going to announce this sentence with the unhappy princess.
In 1598, it was made large treasurer, and chaired the commission which judged the Count d' Essex. Jacques Ier of England created it Count de Dorset, and the favor renewed to him which he had enjoyed under the preceding reign.
Dorset in its youth had cultivated poetry; it is the first which gave to England a regular drama, the Tragédie of Gordolnie 1561. It had published in 1559 the Miroir of the magistrates , collection of poems where large characters tell misfortunes of which they were victims.
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