PACKER, HENRY, brother of Winchcombe Howard Packer (qv); bapt. 16 Nov 1707; adm. (aged 9) Feb 1716/7; probably left 1717; Trinity Coll. Oxford, matr. 23 Jun 1726; adm. Middle Temple 17 Jul 1731; d. unm. 27 Oct 1746.
PACKER, ---; b.; in school list Feb 1727/8.
PACK, JOHN CHRISTOPHER, eldest son of Richard Pack, Flore Hall, Northants, and Mary Freeman (IGI); b. 22 Jul 1807; adm. 19 Jan 1821 (Stelfox's); left Bartholomewtide 1823; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 7 Dec 1825; BA 1829; adm. Middle Temple 23 Feb 1825; d. 17 Feb 1879.
PACEY, REGINALD PINDAR, only son of Henry Pacey MP, West Keal, Lincs., and his second wife Cassandra Pindar (or Pyndar), Kempley, Gloucs.; half-brother of John Pacey (qv); bapt. Boston, Lincs., 31 Oct 1715 (IGI); adm. (aged 9) Mar 1726/7; d. 7 Feb 1727/8. [“but paid full fees 1728 !”]
PACEY, JOHN, third son of Henry Pacey MP, West Keal, Lincs., and his first wife Elizabeth, dau. of William Packharness, Frieston, Lincs.; b.; adm. (aged 13) Oct 1722; in under school list 1723; probably left 1723; d. in East Indies.
PACE, WILLIAM, son of William Pace, London; b.; adm. 11 Jul 1770; KS (aged 14) 1777; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1781, adm. pens. 14 Jun 1781, scholar 19 Apr 1782, matr. Mich. 1781; BA 1785; MA 1819; ordained; Rector of Rampisham with Wraxall, Dorset, from 1794; d. 22 Mar 1845. [Perhaps bapt. Ingatestone, Essex, 17 Apr 1763, son of William Pace, and Ann --- (IGI)]
PACE, EDWARD, son of Edward Pace, Barbados, and Lucretia Salmon (IGI); b.; Min. Can. (aged 14) 1757 (as Pase).
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Oxley, Geoffrey Harold, son of Harold Oxley, stockbroker, of Sewardstonebury, Essex, and Lillian Tracey Butler; b. 29 Mar. 1914; adm. Jan. 1928 (R); left Dec. 1929; a stockbroker 1944-52; investment man. Wm Brandt Sons & Co. 1952, dir. 1969, retd from board 1975; a consultant and private co. director 1975-; m. 1st 14 Feb. 1942 Mary Beatrice, d. of John E. Foreman, med. practitioner, of Southbourne, Hants; 2nd 3 Sept. 1960 Gillian Iris Judd, d. of Capt. Gerald A. G. Young, of I. of Wight; d. 14 Sept. 1990.
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