Robert Sackville-West, 7th Baron Sackville

Robert Sackville-West worked in publishing after studying history at Oxford University. He now chairs Knole Estates, the property and investment company which - in parallel with the National Trust - runs the Sackville family's interests at Knole, the house in Kent where his family have lived for 400 years. Robert is the author of the critically acclaimed Inheritance: The Story of Knole and the Sackvilles (2010) and The Disinherited (2014).