Lionel Sackville-West, 6th Baron Sackville
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Lionel Bertrand Sackville-West, 6th Baron Sackville, in 1973
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| Born | Lionel Bertrand Sackville-West 30 May 1913 London |
| Died | 27 March 2004 (aged 90) |
| Title | Baron Sackville |
| Tenure | 4 July 1965 – 27 March 2004 |
| Successor | Robert Sackville-West, 7th Baron |
| Spouse(s) | Jacobine Napier Hichens (née Menzies-Wilson) Arlie Roebuck de Guingand (née Woodhead) Jean Imbert-Terry (née Garton) |
| Issue | Teresa Sackville-West Catherine Jacobine Sackville-West Sophia Anne Sackville-West Victoria Mary Sackville-West Sarah Elizabeth Sackville-West |
| Parents | Bertrand Sackville-West Eva Inigo-Jones |
Lionel Bertrand Sackville-West, 6th Baron Sackville (30 May 1913 – 27 March 2004) was a stockbroker and member of the British peerage. In 1965, he became the sixth Baron Sackville.
Born in London, Sackville-West was the eldest son of Bertrand Sackville-West and Eva Inigo-Jones. He spent his early years in Sussex. During the First World War, he famously wrote to King George V, "When will the War be over? I miss my daddy and having sugar on my porridge", and received the personal reply, "I hope the War will be over soon and that your daddy will come back. I too miss having sugar on my porridge."
In 1935, having completed his studies at Winchester and Magdalen College, Oxford, Sackville-West obtained a position with Jardine Matheson in Shanghai. This was cut short when the Japanese invaded China, however, and he returned to England in 1939 and joined the Army. He served in the Coldstream Guards in North Africa and in 1942 was captured at Tobruk, spending the next year in a prison camp at Chieti, 200 km northeast of Rome. After the surrender of Italy in 1943 he was removed by the German Army to a prison camp near Brandenburg, where he spent the remainder of the war.
On his return home from the war, Sackville-West began a career with Lloyd's of London, where he remained until his retirement in 1978.
Sackville-West's marriage to Jacobine Hichens (née Menzies-Wilson) in 1953 produced five daughters, and on the birth of each one, his cousin Vita Sackville-West wrote a letter bemoaning the failure to produce a male heir for the Knole estate. Vita was greatly affected by the fact that, as a woman, she was barred from inheriting Knole from her father; the heartache caused by losing the estate to her cousins marked the rest of her life, and her relationship with the rest of her family.
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