Sackville’s corruption in other ways also surprised those accustomed to run-of-the-court avarice. Sackville was very wealthy, but always wanted more, and did not care if, in the course of enriching his own family, colonial administration suffered.
On March 30, 1776, for example, he informed George III that “by the death of Baron Muir the office of Receiver General of Jamaica becomes vacant. Lord George would be infinitely Obliged to your Majesty if you would be graciously pleased to grant that office to his youngest son…” Sackville’s youngest son at that time was seven years old and of course could not do the job, but it paid £600 per year. George III did not follow Sackville’s advice in this instance, and instead appointed to the position the son of Prime Minister Lord Frederick North.
Source:
Olasky, Marvin. “Vice, Virtue, and the Battlefield.” Fighting for Liberty and Virtue: Political and Cultural Wars in Eighteenth-Century America. Crossway Books, 1995. 146-47. Print.
Original Source Listed:
Valentine, Lord George Germain, 380.
Further Reading:
George III of the United Kingdom (George William Frederick)
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