Thomas Sackville t Earl of Dorset (1s)

Sackville, Thomas, 1st Earl of Dorset, (1536–1608), English statesman and poet. He was coauthor (with Thomas Norton) of the first English blank-verse tragedy, Gorboduc (1561). He is also noted for his poems “Induction” and “Complaint of Buckingham” in the collection A Myrrovre for Magistrates (1559–63). Sackville was raised to peerage status in 1567 and also had the dubious distinction of announcing the death sentence to Mary, Queen of Scots (1586).