Social Victorians/People/Sackville West

Also Known As

 * Family name: Sackville West
 * The family name of the Earl De La Warr is Sackville, and the families overlap.
 * Baron Sackville
 * Mortimer Sackville-West, 1st Baron Sackville of Knole (2 October 1876 – 1 October 1888)
 * Lionel Sackville-West, 2nd Baron Sackville of Knole (1 October 1888 – 3 September 1908)
 * Lionel Edward Sackville-West, 3rd Baron Sackville of Knole (3 September 1908 – 28 January 1928)

Nationality

 * Sackville-West, British
 * Durán, Spanish

Family

 * Lionel Sackville-West, 2nd Baron Sackville of Knole (19 July 1827 – 3 September 1908)
 * Pepita (Josefa de la Oliva) Durán y Ortega (1830 – 11 March 1871)
 * Maximiliano Leon Jose Manuele Enrique Bernardino Sackville-West (20 May 1858 – 1936)
 * Victoria Josefa Sackville-West (23 September 1862 – 30 January 1936)
 * Flora (Lydie Elenore) Sackville-West (11 November 1866 – )
 * Amalia Sackville-West (1868 – )
 * Henry (Ernest Henri Jean Baptiste) Sackville-West (1869 – 3 June 1914)
 * + 2 more?


 * Victoria Josefa Sackville-West (23 September 1862 – 30 January 1936)
 * Lionel Edward Sackville-West, 3rd Baron Sackville of Knole (15 May 1867 – 28 January 1928)
 * Hon. Vita (Victoria Mary) Sackville-West (8 March 1892 – 2 June 1962)



Relations

 * Lionel Edward Sackville-West, 3rd Baron was Victoria Sackville-West's cousin, son of Hon. William Edward Sackville-West, who — like her father — was another son of the 5th Earl De La Warr.

Timeline
1888 June 16, Flora (Lydie Elenore) Sackville-West and Gabriel Salanson married.

1890 June 17, Victoria Josefa Sackville-West and Lionel Edward Sackville-West married.

1897 July 2, the Hon. Mrs. Sackville West attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball.

Costume at the Duchess of Devonshire's 2 July 1897 Fancy-dress Ball
At the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball, the Hon. Mrs. Sackville West (at 340) — probably Victoria Josefa Sackville-West — was dressed as Duchess of Dorset in the Quadrille of the Louis XV. and Louis XVI.

Notes and Questions

 * 1) Because Josefa de la Oliva Durán y Ortega had married Juan Antonio Gabriel de la Oliva in January 1851, the English High Court Probate Division ruled after Lionel Sackville-West's death in 1910 that she and Sackville-West were not legally married and their children were all illegitimate. They had lived as if they were married, and in announcing her death to his friends he called her his wife.
 * 2) Maximiliano Leon Jose Manuele Enrique Bernardino Sackville-West: according to The Peerage, citing Burke's, "Documentation was drawn up stating him to be son of ‘Pepita' by Juan Antonio de la Oliva, her official husband, hence he was prevented from claiming the Barony of Sackville of Knole on his biological father's death."
 * 3) Identifying the Mrs. Sackville-West who attended the Duchess of Devonshire's ball: a reference to Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Sackville-West in 1890 is to Victoria Josefa Sackville-West shortly after her marriage to Lionel Edward Sackville-West. Her father is mentioned in all the newspaper reports of the wedding, and her mother — who died in 1871 or 1872 — is mentioned in none.