:William Sackville, 10th Earl De La Warr
{{Short description|British aristocrat and politician (1921–1988)}}
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{{Use British English|date=June 2022}}
{{Infobox nobility
| name = William Herbrand Sackville
| title = 10th Earl De La Warr
| image =
| caption =
| other_titles = {{ubl
|16th Baron Delaware
|5th Baron Buckhurst
|10th Viscount Cantelupe }}
| noble family = De La Warr
| father = Herbrand Sackville, 9th Earl De La Warr
| mother =
| spouse = Anne Rachel Devas
| issue = 3, including William Herbrand Sackville and Thomas Geoffrey Sackville
| birth_date = {{birth-date|16 October 1921|}}
| birth_place =
| death_date = {{death-date and age|9 February 1988|16 October 1921}}
| death_place = London, England
| burial_place =
}}
William Herbrand Sackville, 10th Earl De La Warr {{postnominals|country=GBR|DL}} ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|d|ɛ|l|ə|w|ɛər|audio=en-us-Delaware.ogg}} 16 October 1921 – 9 February 1988) was a British peer. He inherited the earldom on 28 January 1976 on the death of his father Herbrand Edward Dundonald Brassey Sackville, 9th Earl De La Warr.
Earl De La Warr was educated at Eton College, and fought in World War II, attaining the rank of captain in the Parachute Regiment of the British Army. After the war, on 18 May 1946, he married Anne Rachel Devas (grandniece of a former Prime Minister, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman).{{cn|date=May 2018}} They had three children:
- William Herbrand Sackville, 11th Earl De La Warr, born 10 April 1948
- Thomas Geoffrey Sackville, born 26 October 1950
- Lady Arabella Avice Diana Sackville, 20 June 1958 – 18 June 2022{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Sackville |department=Register |date=22 June 2022 |page=53 |issue=73816 |column=6}}
In September 1981, the Earl allowed Doctor Who to film on his large tranche of Ashdown Forest for the episode "Black Orchid".[http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/6a.html shannonsulivan.com]
In the autumn of 1987, the earl offered to sell that forest, the direct inspiration for the Winnie-the-Pooh stories, to the East Sussex County Council at a below-market price of £1.2 million for the {{convert|6500|acres}}. As young children, the future earl and Christopher Robin Milne had played together there. Milne himself joined conservationists to prevent the forest from being sold piecemeal to private owners, and to oppose BP's plan to prospect and extract oil there. The sale to the council was concluded after the earl's death, making the forest public land.
On 9 February 1988, at age 66, Earl De La Warr died after falling under a train at the St James's Park station of the London Underground. An inquest ruled the death to be a suicide, with a jury finding that the earl had been "anxious and upset over hurricane damage to his estate".
References
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|editor-first=Darryl Roger |editor-last=Lundy |title=William Herbrand Sackville, 10th Earl De La Warr |work=The Peerage |url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p14304.htm#i143034 |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307005023/http://www.thepeerage.com/p14304.htm#i143034 |archivedate=2016-03-07 }}
{{cite news |author=United Press International |title=Pooh's forest saved |newspaper=Chicago Sun-Times |publication-place=US |place=London |agency=UPI |date=26 November 1988 |accessdate=28 April 2016 |url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-3916119.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160911154537/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-3916119.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=11 September 2016 |via=HighBeam Research }}
{{cite news |author=Associated Press |title=Oil Yields to Honey in Pooh Bear's Home |newspaper=Boston Globe |publication-place=US |place=London |agency=AP |date=16 May 1988 |accessdate=28 April 2016 |url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8062129.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160911172717/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8062129.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=11 September 2016 |via=HighBeam Research }}
{{cite news |newspaper=The Herald |location=Glasgow |title=Earl dies in fall under train |date=11 February 1988 |page=7 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=3oFDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3182%2C2843347 |via=Google News Archive }}
{{cite news |newspaper=The Herald |location=Glasgow |title=Anxious Earl dived under train |date=17 March 1988 |page=3 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=AzlAAAAAIBAJ&pg=1514%2C4511115 |via=Google News Archive }}
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William Sackville, 10 Earl De La Warr
Category:Conservative Party (UK) hereditary peers
Category:Deputy lieutenants of East Sussex
Category:People educated at Eton College
Category:British Parachute Regiment officers
Category:Suicides in Westminster
Category:British politicians who died by suicide