sons and a daughter. Their younger son Thomas Sackville (1922–1943) was killed in action during the Second World War. After Diana's death in March 1966, he married secondly Sylvia, Countess of Kilmuir, in 1968. She was the daughter of Edith and William Reginald Harrison, widow of David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir, and the sister of actor Sir Rex Harrison, famously star of the film, My Fair Lady. One of his sisters was Lady Avice Ela Muriel Sackville (d. 1985). He attended her marriage to Stewart Menzies, (leader of British wartime intelligence or 'C'), dressed in a lower-deck seaman's bell-bottomed uniform. Death Lord De La Warr died in January 1976, aged 75, and was succeeded in the earldom by his elder and only surviving son, William. The Countess De La Warr died in June 1992. Note References External links 1900 births 1976 deaths People educated at Eton College British conscientious objectors British Secretaries of State for Education Labour Party (UK) hereditary peers National Labour (UK) politicians Lords Privy Seal United Kingdom Postmasters General 9 4 Herbrand Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire Conservative Party (UK) hereditary peers Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom Labour Party (UK) Baronesses- and Lords-in-Waiting Herbrand Sackville, 09 Earl De La Warr Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms Ministers in the Chamberlain wartime government, 1939–1940 Ministers in the Chamberlain peacetime government, 1937–1939 Ministers in the third Churchill government, 1951–1955 Royal Naval Reserve personnel