biography
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Sackville, Thomas, 1st Earl of Dorset
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| lived:
| (1536–1608)
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| biography:
| English statesman and poet, born in Buckhurst, Sussex, England, UK. He became a lawyer and entered parliament (1558), then collaborated with Thomas Norton (1532–84) in the tragedy Gorboduc (1561), the first English play in blank verse. Knighted in 1567, he later became a diplomat in Europe, Lord High Treasurer (1599), and an earl (1604). |
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