George Sackville, 4th Duke of Dorset

George John Frederick Sackville, 4th Duke of Dorset (15 November 179314 February 1815), styled Earl of Middlesex until 1799, was a British militia officer.

Early life The only son of John Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset, and his wife Arabella Diana Cope (a daughter of Sir Charles Cope, Bt.). After his father's death, his mother married Charles Whitworth, 1st Earl Whitworth. and on 26 July the same year he was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant of the regiment.

Personal life

Lord Dorset died in February 1815, of a fall from his horse while hunting on Killiney Hill in County Dublin. An account of this incident, as well as the difficulties that followed an earlier injury to his right eye while playing real tennis, which blighted his career, was published as part of an appreciation of his character in The Gentleman's Magazine for September 1816. He had no children, so he was succeeded as duke by his first cousin once removed, Charles Sackville-Germain. His estate of Knole passed to his sister Elizabeth Sackville-West, Countess De La Warr.