Overview
Major-General Charles Richard Sackville-West, 6th Earl De La Warr, was a British Army officer. He was a peer for the last 4+1⁄6 years of his life, succeeding his father in 1869. De La Warr committed suicide by drowning himself in the River Cam four year later; unmarried, his title and estates were inherited by his brother.
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