Dorset, Thomas Sackville, Earl of, 1536-1608

found: DNB(Sackville, Thomas, 1st Earl of Dorset and Baron Buckhurst; b. 1536; d. 4/19/1608)

found: Feldman, Sabrina. The apocryphal William Shakespeare, 2011:page 45 (Thomas Sackville, 1536-1608, one of the leading statesmen of his time and the greatest poet of his generation; second cousin of Queen Elizabeth I)

found: Wikipedia, viewed September 18, 2013:article, Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset (English statesman, poet, and dramatist; born 1536 in Buckhurst, Sussex [now a hamlet in the civil parish of Withyham]; died April 19, 1608 in Westminster, London; 1558-1563, M.P. for Westmoreland, East Grinstead, and Aylesbury; 1561, co-author of the first English drama written in blank verse; 1567, created Baron Buckhurst; 1591-1608, Chancellor of the University of Oxford; 1599-1608, Lord High Treasurer; 1604, created Earl of Dorset)

found: The Peerage, website, viewed September 18, 2013(Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, b. 1527 [sic], d. 19 April 1608; 1st Baron of Buckhurst and 1st Earl of Dorset)

found: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online, viewed September 18, 2013(Sackville, Thomas, first Baron Buckhurst and first Earl of Dorset, c. 1536-1608, poet and administrator; appointed Lord High Treasurer by Elizabeth I and re-appointed after her death by James I; "representative of his period and its culture as a renaissance man: poet, scholar, traveller, courtier, statesman, a lover and patron of music and fine art. He was a religious man with the experience and pragmatism to tolerate his neighbours' (and his family's) freedom of conscience in private, and not only a loyal servant of the crown but also a discreet man of personal charm and moral integrity")