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

John Tufton, 2nd Earl of Thanet 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 Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley .On 21 April 1629, he married Lady Margaret Sackville , daughter of...

 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
  Sackville Tufton, 7th Earl of Thanet , known as Sackville Tufton until 1729, was a British nobleman and politician....
  
   (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 1st Foot Guards

Grenadier Guards

The Grenadier Guards is an infantry regiment of the British Army. It is the most senior regiment of the Guards Division and, as such, is the most senior regiment of infantry. It is not, however, the most senior regiment of the Army, this position being attributed to the Life Guards...

. In 1673, he was wounded in the Battle of Schooneveld

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 between an allied Anglo-French fleet commanded by Prince Rupert of the Rhine, and the fleet of the United Provinces, commanded by Michiel de Ruyter.The...

 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 Bath over several years for further treatment under Peirce’s direction and regained some use of his hand.

In 1687, he was appointed colonel of a regiment of foot, which later became the East Yorkshire Regiment

East Yorkshire Regiment

The East Yorkshire Regiment was an infantry regiment of the line in the British Army, first raised in 1685 as Sir William Clifton's Regiment of Foot. It saw service for three centuries, before being amalgamated with the West Yorkshire Regiment , becoming The Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of...

.http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/015EYork.htm He was removed from his colonelcy at the end of 1688 for refusing to swear loyalty to William III

William III of England

William III & II was a sovereign Prince of Orange of the House of Orange-Nassau by birth. From 1672 he governed as Stadtholder William III of Orange over Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel of the Dutch Republic. From 1689 he reigned as William III over England and Ireland...

 after the Glorious Revolution

Glorious Revolution

The Glorious Revolution, also called the Revolution of 1688, is the overthrow of King James II of England by a union of English Parliamentarians with the Dutch stadtholder William III of Orange-Nassau...

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