page_title: Edward Sackville (died 1714)
section_title: Later career
hierarchical_section_title: Edward Sackville (died 1714) / Later career
context_page_description: Edward Sackville was an English soldier and landowner, rising to the rank of major general, briefly a member of parliament, and after the Glorious Revolution a Jacobite.
context_section_description: Sackville's military career did not suffer from his short political adventure. In the summer of 1680 he was posted to the Tangier Garrison of the colony of English Tangier as Lieutenant Colonel of two companies of the new Tangier Regiment known as the King’s Battalion. On the death of Charles FitzCharles, 1st Earl of Plymouth, Governor of Tangier, in October 1680, Sackville took over as acting Governor, continuing in the role until December 1681. The English abandoned Tangier in 1684. After the accession to the throne of King James II in February 1685, Sackville became a Roman Catholic and was given fast promotion, within weeks becoming a Brigadier and then a major-general in November and December 1688, when he continued his allegiance to the king in the Glorious Revolution.
  Sackville surrendered his commission to the outgoing king at Rochester on 19 December 1688, becoming active as a Jacobite conspirator. He got military information from John Churchill, Earl of Marlborough. 
  In 1690, Sackville was arrested on the orders of the Queen, together with Edward Lee, 1st Earl of Lichfield, Thomas Bruce, 2nd Earl of Ailesbury, Roger Palmer, 1st Earl of Castlemaine, Viscount Preston, Lord Montgomerie and Lord Belasyse, Sir Edward Hales, Sir Robert Tharold, Sir Robert Hamilton, and Sir Theophilus Oglethorpe, and was briefly imprisoned. He was a non-juror to the end of his life. In 1706 he received an annuity of £100 under the will of his kinsman Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, and died on 9 January 1714.
caption: English Tangier as it was when Sackville was commanding officer and acting Governor
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