Margaret
Sackville,
the daughter of the 7th Earl
De La Warr, was born in 1881. A
poet and children's author, she joined the ant-war, Union
of Democratic Control in 1914. During the war she published a
collection of poems called The Pagent of
War (1916). It included the poem Nostra
Culpa, denouncing women who betrayed their sons by not
speaking out: "We mothers and we murderers of mankind".
Her aunt, Muriel De La Warr and her uncle,
Herbrand Sackville, ninth Earl De La
Warr, were also involved in the peace movement. Her brother, the
8th Earl De La Warr, was killed in the conflict in 1915. Margaret
Sackville died in Cheltenham in 1963.
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