Tom Sackville

The Honourable

Thomas Sackville
The Honourable; Thomas Sackville
Lord Commissioner of the Treasury
	In office; 30 October 1989 – 28 November 1990
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by	David Heathcoat-Amory
Succeeded by	Nicholas Baker
Member of Parliament; for Bolton West
	In office; 9 June 1983 – 8 April 1997
Preceded by	Ann Taylor
Succeeded by	Ruth Kelly
Personal details
Born	26 October 1950 (age 70)
Parents	William Sackville, 10th Earl De La Warr; Anne Rachel Devas

Thomas Geoffrey Sackville (born 26 October 1950) is a British Conservative politician.

Family and early life[]

Tom Sackville is the second son of William Sackville, 10th Earl De La Warr (d. February 1988) and Anne Rachel Devas, and his brother is William Herbrand Sackville, the 11th Earl De La Warr.^[1]

In 1979, he married Catherine Thérèsa Windsor-Lewis, daughter of Brigadier James Charles Windsor-Lewis.^[1] They have two children, Arthur Michael Sackville (b. 1983) and Savannah Elizabeth Sackville (b. 1986), both adopted.^[1]

He was educated at Eton College and Lincoln College, Oxford, and began his professional career in merchant banking.^[1]

Parliamentary career[]

Sackville first ran for Parliament in the constituency of Pontypool in the 1979 election, being beaten by Labour's Leo Abse.

He served as a Conservative Member of Parliament for Bolton West from the 1983 election until he was defeated by Ruth Kelly in the 1997 election. He held the office of Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State between 1992 and 1997, initially for the Department of Health, then as a Home Office minister between 1995 and 1997.^[1]^[2]

Work against cults[]

In 1985 he started All-Party Committee Against Cults^[3] and 20 October 2000 he became first chairman of The Family Survival Trust (formerly Family Action Information Resource, FAIR), an anti-cult organisation.^[2]

In 1997 he ended government funding for the independent research group Information Network Focus on Religious Movements (Inform). Funds were reinstated in 2000.^[2] In his article for The Spectator (2004) he accused INFORM and its president Eileen Barker of "refusing to criticise the worst excesses of cult leaders", and congratulated the Archbishop of Canterbury for declining to become a patron of INFORM. The allegations were described by INFORM as unfounded.^[3]

In 2005 he was elected as vice-president of European Federation of Centres of Research and Information on Sectarianism (FECRIS), an umbrella organization for anti-cult groups in Europe, and from 2009 he has served as its president.^[3]

Sackville is the current CEO of the International Federation of Health Plans.^[4]

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage. 1 (107th ed.). p. 1074. ISBN 978-0971196629. Cited in Lundy, Darryl Roger (ed.). "Hon. Thomas Geoffrey Sackville". The Peerage. Archived from the original on 7 March 2016.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Telegraph staff (31 July 2000), "Cult advisers in clash over clampdown", The Daily Telegraph, retrieved 19 December 2009
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Regis Dericquebourg, A Case Study: FECRIS, Journal for the Study of Beliefs and Worldviews, 2012/2, p.188–189, ISBN 978-3-643-99894-1
^ "Speakers Health Insurance Counter Fraud Group". hicfg.com. Retrieved 1 June 2014.

External links[]

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Tom Sackville
Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Ann Taylor	Member of Parliament for Bolton West 1983 – 1997	Succeeded by Ruth Kelly

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[burkes-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage. 1 (107th ed.). p. 1074. ISBN 978-0971196629. Cited in Lundy, Darryl Roger (ed.). "Hon. Thomas Geoffrey Sackville". The Peerage. Archived from the original on 7 March 2016.

[CultAdvDTelegraph-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Telegraph staff (31 July 2000), "Cult advisers in clash over clampdown", The Daily Telegraph, retrieved 19 December 2009

[FECase-3] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Regis Dericquebourg, A Case Study: FECRIS, Journal for the Study of Beliefs and Worldviews, 2012/2, p.188–189, ISBN 978-3-643-99894-1

[hicf_Spea-4] "Speakers Health Insurance Counter Fraud Group". hicfg.com. Retrieved 1 June 2014.

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