Sackville Stopford-Sackville

Sackville George Stopford-Sackville DL, JP (19 March 1840 – 6 October 1926), known as Sackville Stopford until 1870, was a British Conservative politician.

Background and education

Born Sackville Stopford, Stopford-Sackville was the eldest son of William Stopford-Sackville, son of Reverend the Hon. Richard Bruce Stopford, younger son of James Stopford, 2nd Earl of Courtown. His mother was Caroline Harriett, daughter and heiress of the Hon. George Sackville, younger son of George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville. He assumed in 1870 (alongside his father) by Royal licence the additional surname of Sackville. Through his mother he notably inherited Drayton House, Lowick, Northamptonshire. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford.

Political career

Stopford-Sackville was returned to Parliament for Northamptonshire North in 1867, a seat he held until 1880. He remained out of the House of Commons for the next twenty years trying unsuccessfully to return to parliament in the 1894 Wisbech by-election. In 1900 he was re-elected for his previous constituency Northamptonshire North, and continued to represent it until 1906. He was also an Alderman of the Northamptonshire County Council and served as a Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace of that county.

Family

Stopford-Sackville married Edith Frances, daughter of William Rashleigh, in 1875. There were no children from the marriage. She died in December 1905. Sackville-Stopford survived her by over twenty years and died in October 1926, aged 86.

A reredos was installed in his memory in St Peter's Church, Lowick.

References

Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Sackville Stopford-Sackville

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Lord Burghley George Ward Hunt	Member of Parliament for Northamptonshire North 1867–1880 With: George Ward Hunt 1867–1877 Lord Burghley 1877–1880	Succeeded by Lord Burghley Hon. Charles Spencer
Preceded by Edward Philip Monckton	Member of Parliament for Northamptonshire North 1900–1906	Succeeded by George Nicholls

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