* 1706 – Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet and courtier ( b. 1638 )

* 1638 – Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet ( d. 1706 )

* April 19 – Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, English statesman and poet ( b. 1536 )

* January 24 – Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet and courtier ( d. 1706 )

** Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, English statesman and poet ( d. 1608 )

* January 29 – Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet and courtier ( b. 1638 )

In his poem Praise O ' Do ' set, the Dorset poet William Barnes asks,

In 1925 the couple moved to Dorset: firstly to the Coastguard Cottages on White Nothe and then to nearby farmhouse Chydyok, where his two sisters, the poet and novelist, Philippa Powys, and the artist, Gertrude Powys, occupied the adjacent cottage.

* January 24-Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, poet ( died 1706 )

* April 19 – Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, statesman and poet ( born 1536 )

Dubbed the " Merry Gang " by poet Andrew Marvell, their members included George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, Sir Charles Sedley, Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, and the playwrights William Wycherley and George Etherege.

* Canadian poet Al Purdy wrote a poem entitled " Lament for the Dorsets " which starts " Animal bones and some mossy tent rings ... all that remains of Dorset giants, who drove the Vikings back to their longships ..." This poem laments the loss of their culture and describes them and their end.

She subsequently married Nick Fox, a poet who is also her manager, with whom she currently lives in Dorset.

Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset ( 1536 – 19 April 1608 ) was an English statesman, poet, dramatist and Freemason.

* Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset ( 1536 – 1608 ), English statesman, poet and playwright

Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset and 1st Earl of Middlesex ( 24 January 1638 – 29 January 1706 ) was an English poet and courtier.

In 1925 the couple moved to Dorset: firstly to the Coastguard Cottages on White Nore and then to the nearby farmhouse Chydyok, where his two sisters, the poet and novelist, Philippa Powys, and the artist, Gertrude Powys, occupied the adjacent cottage.

19th-century Dorset dialect poet William Barnes was born in the hamlet of Bagber which lies about half a mile to the east.

Samuel Byrom, son of the writer and poet John Byrom, was imprisoned for debt in the Fleet in 1725, and in 1729 he sent a petition to his old school friend, the Duke of Dorset, in which he raged against the injustices of the system:

mere, close to the borders of Dorset and Somerset, is interesting not only for its Perpendicular church, but for a mediæval chantry, used as a schoolhouse by Barnes, the Dorset poet, and for its 14th century dwelling-houses.

Augusta Webster ( 30 January 1837-5 September 1894 ) born in Poole, Dorset as Julia Augusta Davies, was an English poet, dramatist, essayist, and translator.

George Turberville, or Turbervile ( about 1540-before 1597 ) was an English poet, second son of Henry Turberville of Winterborne Whitechurch, Dorset, and nephew of James Turberville, Bishop of Exeter.

As an artist, he wrote and recorded " Always One Redneck Away From Loving You " ( co-written with Dorset poet Maxwell Langdown ), and " Yellow Pages " for Mercury Records.

Stephen's long-standing commander William of Ypres remained with the queen in London ; William Martel, the royal steward, commanded operations from Sherborne in Dorset, and Faramus of Boulogne ran the royal household.

: William Barnes, Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect ( June 1879 ), p. 382

The English author Thomas Hardy used a fictionalised Wessex as a setting for many of his novels, adopting his friend William Barnes ' term Wessex for their home county of Dorset and its neighbouring counties in the south and west of England.

* A group of conspirators meet at Charborough House in Dorset to plan the overthrow of King James and replace him with the Protestant Dutch Stadtholder, William III of Orange-Nassau.

Briefly, she even sought out important British personages such as the Prime Minister, William Pitt the Younger, and the British ambassador to France, the Duke of Dorset.

Charles was baptised in the Chapel Royal on 27 June by the Anglican Bishop of London William Laud and brought up in the care of the Protestant Countess of Dorset, though his godparents included his mother's Catholic relations, Louis XIII and Marie de ' Medici.

Stephen's long-standing commander William of Ypres remained with the queen in London ; William Martel, the royal steward, commanded operations from Sherborne in Dorset, and Faramus of Boulogne ran the royal household.

The 12th-century historian William of Malmesbury, who seems unaware of any pre-existing minster, claims that one Æthelweard ( Egelwardus ), whom he describes as " ealdorman of Dorset ", had founded the abbey of Pershore in the time of King Edgar.

Many years later, after conflict with King John, William de Braose's wife Maud de Braose personally and directly accused the King of murdering Arthur, which resulted in Maud and her eldest son, also William, being imprisoned and allegedly starved to death in Corfe Castle in Dorset.

To ensure that they would be in the latest taste, William was sent down to Dorset to make careful notes of the interiors recently finished at Kingston Lacy for Sir Ralph Bankes to designs by Sir Roger Pratt.

Buckingham was one of the archetypal Restoration rakes, part of the " Merry Gang " of courtiers whose other members included John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, Sir Charles Sedley, Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, and the playwrights William Wycherley and George Etherege.

* William Barnes-Glossary of Dorset Dialect

The song was first collected in England in its version as " The Unfortunate Rake " by Henry Hammond by a Mr. William Cutis at Lyme Regis, Dorset in March 1906.

Born to William and Ann Forster, Quaker parents at Bradpole, near Bridport in Dorset, he was educated at the Quaker school at Tottenham, where his father's family had long been settled, and on leaving school he was put into business.

Charles ' personal interest in the stage nourished Restoration drama, and his most favoured courtiers were poets, playwrights, and men of wit, such as John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset, and William Wycherley.

Other notable ancestors were Sir Thomas Trenchard, a High Sheriff of Dorset in the 16th century and Sir John Trenchard, the Secretary of State under William III.

* William Mayo ( vicar ), the vicar of Folke, Dorset, England in about 1845.

His nephew, the fifth Earl, was Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms from 1873 to 1874 in the Liberal government of William Ewart Gladstone and also served as Lord Lieutenant of Dorset from 1885 to 1905.

* William Barnes ' Dorset dialect poetry ( 1801 – 1886 ).

Watercress is grown in a number of counties of the United Kingdom, most notably Hertfordshire, Hampshire, Wiltshire and Dorset, although the first commercial cultivation was along the River Ebbsfleet in Kent grown by William Bradbery ( horticulturist ) in 1808.

William Ponsonby, who had earlier represented Poole, Knaresborough and Dorset in the House of Commons.