Lionel Sackville-West, 2nd Baron Sackville
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Lionel Sackville-West, 2nd Baron Sackville, GCMG (19 July 1827-3 September 1908), succeeded his brother Mortimer Sackville-West, 1st Baron Sackville as 2nd baron.
He had a long career in the diplomatic service. From 1872 to 1878 he was minister to Argentina; from 1878 to 1881 he represented his country at Madrid, and from 1881 to 1888 at Washington, D.C.. His retirement was due to his writing of the The Murchison letter, where he very blatantly suggested that a supposed Briton-turned-Federal-citizen vote for Grover Cleveland.
He died in September 1908 and was succeeded by his nephew Lionel Edward (1867-1928) as 3rd baron.
The Hon. Lionel Sackville-West, as the 2nd baron then was before he succeeded to the barony, had several children by a Spanish dancer, Josefa de la Oliva (née Durán y Ortega, known as Pepita). Soon after his death one of these, calling himself Ernest Henri Jean Baptiste Sackville-West, claimed to be a lawful son and his father's heir. He asserted that between 1863 and 1867 Sackville-West had married his mother. The case came before the English courts of law in 1909-1910, and it was decided that the children of this union were all illegitimate, as Pepita's husband, Jean Antonio Gabriel de Oliva, was alive during the whole period of his wife's connection with Sackville-West.
His nephew Lionel married his daughter Victoria, and they were the parents of Vita Sackville-West
| Diplomatic posts | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Edward Thornton |
British Minister to the United States 1881–1888 |
Succeeded by Sir Julian Pauncefote |
| Peerage of the United Kingdom | ||
| Preceded by Mortimer Sackville-West |
Baron Sackville 1888 - 1908 |
Succeeded by Lionel Sackville-West |
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- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
- Lionel Sackville-West, 2nd Baron Sackville (person), Everything2
