Sackville-West, Sir Lionel Sackville, an English diplomatist; born July 19, 1827; was British minister to the United States in 1881-1888. He received his passports from President Cleveland for having written a letter during the presidential campaign in which he advised a vote for the Democratic ticket as conducing to British interests, in answer to a correspondent who represented himself to be a naturalized English citizen desiring political advice. D. 1908.
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1912.