Sackville College

Sackville College is a Jacobean almshouse around the local area of East Grinstead, West Sussex, England. It was established in 1609 with cash left by Robert Sackville, second Earl of Dorset. Since its commencement it has given protected settlement to the elderly. Robert Sackville left £1,000 for the building and a lease charge of 330, for the blessing of a 'healing facility or school' for 21 poor men and ten poor ladies, to be under the support and legislature of his beneficiaries.

This may have been an impersonation of Emanuel College, Westminster, established by his close relative, Anne Fiennes, Lady Dacre. The working of the almshouse known as 'Sackville College for the Poor' at East Grinstead was initiated around 1616 by the agents, his brother by marriage, Lord William Howard, and Sir George Rivers of Chafford. It was involved before 1622. The majority of the Sackville lands were before long estranged by the author's child, and the purchasers declined to recognize the home's risk to the school.

On 6 July 1631 the poor prisoners got a contract of joining, however their incomes were still sporadically paid. Be that as it may, in 1700, after long prosecution, a lessened lease charge was forced on the Sackville homes in the interest of the school, and the quantity of prisoners diminished to twelve, with a superintendent. The school structures were re-established in the 19^th century by the Countess Amherst and the Countess De la Warr.