The Right Honourable Sir Edward Sackville, 4th Earl of Dorset KG (d. 1652) was the son of Robert Sackville, 2nd Earl of Dorset The Right Honourable (abbreviated The Rt Hon. ... A garter is one of the Orders most recognisable insignia. ... // Events April 6 - Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp for the Dutch East India Company at the Cape of Good Hope, and founded Cape Town. ...

In 1613, Lord Sackville fought a duel with Edward Bruce, 2nd Lord of Kinloss, over Venetia Stanley, a grand-daughter of Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby. They fought in Bergen-op-Zoom, Netherlands to avoid the wrath of the King; Lord Bruce was killed, but Venetia Stanley ended up marrying another man named Sir Kenelm Digby and Lord Sackville married Mary Curzon. They had two children: Sir Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby KG KCB PC (c. ... Bergen op Zoom is a municipality and a city in the southern Netherlands. ...

• Richard Sackville, 5th Earl of Sackville (c. 1621–1667)
• Hon. Edward Sackville b. b 1645, d. 1646, died young.

Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, (January 11 1591 – 14 September 1646), was the son and heir of the unfortunate Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and succeeded to his fathers title in 1604, three years after the previous earl had been executed for treason. ... The Lord Chamberlain or Lord Chamberlain of the Household is one of the chief officers of the Royal Household in the United Kingdom, and is to be distinguished from the Lord Great Chamberlain, one of the great offices of state. ... Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester (1602 - May 5, 1671), eldest son of the 1st earl by his first wife, Catherine Spencer, granddaughter of Sir John Spencer of Althorpe, was born in 1602, and was educated at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. ...

The title Earl of Dorset has been created at least four times in the Peerage of England. ...