William Herbrand Sackville, 11th Earl De La Warr DL (/ˈdɛləwɛər/ DEL-ə-wair; born 10 April 1949) is a British businessman and peer. He was styled Lord Buckhurst from 1976 until 9 February 1988, when he inherited the earldom.
The Earl De La Warr | |
|---|---|
| Full name | William Herbrand Sackville |
| Other titles |
|
| Born | 10 April 1948 |
| Noble family | De La Warr |
| Spouse(s) |
Anne Leveson, Countess of Hopetoun
(m. 1978) |
| Issue |
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| Father | William Sackville, 10th Earl De La Warr |
| Mother | Anne Rachel Devas |
Early life
editThe son of William Sackville, later 10th Earl De La Warr, the young William Sackville was educated at Eton College.[1]
Career
editIn 1976, Lord Buckhurst, as he then was, began a financial career in the City of London as an investment banker at Mullens & Co.[2] For 24 years, he was a director of Laing & Cruickshank and later of its owner Credit Lyonnais Securities, for which he worked in equity sales and published a tip sheet called The Earl's Earner.[3][2][4] He was later a director of Shore Capital, working with its natural resources team in sales,[4] and also became a director of Cluff Natural Resources.[2][3] In April 2016, he joined the hedge fund Toscafund Asset Management as a partner.[5]
Beyond his work in the City of London, De La Warr is a dairy farmer and as of 2016[update] was still breeding livestock at his family seat, Buckhurst Park, East Sussex.[1][6]
In 2009, De La Warr began to hire out the library and an adjacent drawing room of Buckhurst Park for weddings, as a way of "adapting to stay afloat", in response to Britain's then-current economic crisis.[7][dead link] The house and the estate were subsequently made available to the public for corporate events and outdoor pursuits, as well as weddings.[6]
Personal life
editIn 1978, De La Warr married Anne Pamela, Countess of Hopetoun. Born Anne Pamela Leveson, she is a granddaughter of Admiral Sir Arthur Cavenagh Leveson and has two sons by her previous marriage to the Marquess of Linlithgow.[1] In 1988 she became Countess De La Warr and is the owner of South Park Stud, which breeds pedigree Shetland ponies on the Buckhurst Park estate.[8]
Issue:
- William Herbrand Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst (born 13 June 1979), is a hedge fund manager in the City of London, and heir to the earldom.[1][9] In 2010, he married Countess Xenia Tolstoy-Miloslavsky.[9][10]
- Edward Geoffrey Richard Sackville (born 6 December 1980), is a bloodstock agent who co-owns international bloodstock agency SackvilleDonald.[13] In 2013 he married Sophia Georgina Milton Akroyd.[14]
- Viola Idina Edith Sackville was born in July 2013.[15]
- Arthur Edward Mark Sackville was born in June 2015.
De La Warr is a member of White's, the Turf Club, and Pratt's.[3]
De La Warr said in 2015, "I've spent most of my life hunting down the perfect sausage",[16] and an authorized profile in Debrett's People of Today listed his recreations as "country pursuits, sausages".[3] For a decade, he undertook to "resurrect an extinct sausage" that was a favourite of his childhood.[4] The result became the Buckhurst Park sausage, a product made by Speldhurst Quality Foods, in which De La Warr owned a stake, sold nationally in Waitrose supermarkets.[16][17]
In October 2021, De La Warr bought the original Poohsticks Bridge for some £131,000 (equivalent to about £156,000 in 2023), intending to give it "pride of place" in Buckhurst Park[18] but later had to sell it given the high restoration costs.[19]
See also
edit- Buckhurst Park, Sussex, family seat of the Earls De La Warr
References
edit- ^ a b c d Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage. Vol. 1 (107th ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 1074. ISBN 978-0971196629.
- ^ a b c Cluff Natural Resources (2016). "Directors & Management". Archived from the original on 18 May 2016.
- ^ a b c d "William Herbrand Sackville DE LA WARR". People of Today. Debrett's. Archived from the original on 18 May 2016.
- ^ a b c Goodley, Simon, ed. (15 April 2004). "City Diary: De la Warr hunts the sausage". The Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 23 May 2016.
- ^ "Earl De La Warr joins Toscafund hedge fund". FinBuzz: Financial Buzz. London. 28 April 2016. Archived from the original on 28 April 2016.
- ^ a b William, Earl De La Warr. "Welcome to Buckhurst Estate". Buckhurst Park. Archived from the original on 7 May 2010. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
- ^ This Is Sussex (6 May 2009). "Wedding application for Buckhurst Park". East Grinstead Courier. UK. Retrieved 1 June 2016.
- ^ Lady De La Warr. "South Park Shetland Pony Stud". Buckhurst Park. Archived from the original on 22 July 2015.
- ^ a b Walker, Tim (24 September 2009). "Jeweller Xenia Tolstoy receives her gem from Lord Buckhurst". The Telegraph. London. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
- ^ "Marriages: Lord Buckhurst and Countess Xenia Tolstoy-Miloslavsky". The Telegraph (Announcements). London. 2010. Archived from the original on 19 April 2016.
- ^ Buckhurst, Xenia (30 January 2014). "Births: Sackville". The Telegraph (Announcements). London. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
- ^ Buckhurst, William (9 June 2016). "Births: Buckhurst". The Telegraph (Announcements). London. Archived from the original on 10 June 2016.
- ^ Sexton, Nancy (May 2014). "On top of the world". Thoroughbred Owner & Breeder. No. 117. London: Racehorse Owners Association and Thoroughbred Breeders' Association. pp. 50–53. Archived from the original on 28 September 2015. Page images at issuu.
- ^ Rhodes, Michael (15 April 2013). "Sackville/Akroyd marriage". Peerage News. Archived from the original on 27 February 2014. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
- ^ Edwardes, Charlotte (23 July 2013). "Here comes the son... how the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's royal baby will live". Evening Standard. London. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
- ^ a b "Earl brings back boyhood bangers after decade-long search for recipe". News. Waitrose. September 2014. p. 3. Archived from the original on 23 May 2016.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Satchel, Sam (18 April 2015). "Earl's hunt for his favourite childhood sausage is over". East Grinstead Courier. Sussex, UK. Archived from the original on 29 July 2015.
- ^ "Winnie the Pooh: Poohsticks Bridge sells for more than £131k". BBC News. 7 October 2021. Retrieved 8 October 2021.
- ^ Doughty, Eleanor (28 October 2023). "'The estate and the cattle date from the Normans. Now we survive on our overdraft'". Telegraph. Retrieved 6 November 2023.
