Colonel Sackville Tufton (11 June 1646 – 30 March 1721) was the son of

John Tufton, 2nd Earl of Thanet John Tufton, 2nd Earl of Thanet (15 December 1608 – 7 May 1664) was an English nobleman and supporter of Charles I of England. He was the eldest son of Nicholas Tufton, 1st Earl of Thanet, and Lady Frances Cecil, granddaughter of William Ceci ...

and his second wife Margaret Sackville. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Ralph Wilbraham of Newbottle, Northumberland. They had twelve children: *John Tufton (25 May 1687 – 23 February 1689) *

Sackville Tufton, 7th Earl of Thanet Sackville Tufton, 7th Earl of Thanet (11 May 1688 – 4 December 1753) was an English Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1722 until 1729 when he succeeded to the peerage as Earl of Thanet. Tufton was the son of Colonel the H ...

(1688–1753) *John Tufton (d. 12 September 1727) *Wilbraham Tufton (d. 20 October 1754) *Thomas Tufton (d. 9 December 1733) *Richard Tufton *Catharine Tufton (d. 27 June 1731) *Elizabeth Tufton (d. 19 June 1746) *Margaret Tufton (d. 24 July 1758) *Christian Tufton (d. 10 October 1746) *Mary Tufton (d. 19 April 1785) *Elizabeth Tufton (died an infant) Tufton was an officer in the

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. In 1673, he was wounded in the

Battle of Schooneveld The Battles of Schooneveld were two naval battles of the Franco-Dutch War, fought off the coast of the Netherlands on 7 June and 14 June 1673 (New Style; 28 May and 4 June in the Julian calendar then in use in England) between an allied Anglo ...

against the Dutch fleet. His right hand was shattered with muscles and tendons lacerated and bones broken. Recovery was slow and painful and he required several surgical operations to remove bone fragments, performed without the benefit of anaesthesia. He recuperated in Bath in the following spring where he was treated by Dr Robert Peirce. He returned to

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over several years for further treatment under Peirce's direction and regained some use of his hand.Peirce, R "Memoirs of the Bath" Bristol 1697 In 1687, he was appointed colonel of a regiment of foot, which later became the

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He was removed from his colonelcy at the end of 1688 for refusing to swear loyalty to William III of England, William III after the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Tufton, Sackville 1646 births 1721 deaths East Yorkshire Regiment officers English army officers Grenadier Guards officers Younger sons of earls English MPs 1681 English MPs 1685–1687 Military personnel of the Anglo-Dutch Wars