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Packer, John, 1572-1649
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1572-1649
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PACKER, JOHN, son of Thomas Packer, Twickenham, Middlesex, Clerk of the Privy Seal, and Margaret Mauntlow; b. 12 Nov 1572; adm.; QS; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1589, adm. scholar 1590; BA 1593/4; Grand Tour (France); Secretary to Sir Henry Nevill, Ambassador in Paris; Envoy to Denmark 1610; Secretary to Earl of Somerset 1612, and subsequently to Sir George Villiers (1st Duke of Buckingham); Prothonotary of the Chancery, jointly with Francis Godolphin 13 Mar 1614; Clerk of Privy Seal 6 Sep 1618 – suspended by 13 Nov 1643 (holding post under reversionary grant dated 11 Jul 1604); a favourite at Court, and “was offered many times to be made Secretary of State, but always refused it” (HMC 10th report, pt. vi, 174); purchased manor of Groombridge, Speldhurst, Kent, and rebuilt Groombridge Chapel in gratitude for the safe return from Spain of Charles, Prince of Wales; MP West Looe 1628-9; a Commissioner for enquiring into abuses of the Fleet Prison 1635; declined to loan money to Charles I 1640, and thenceforth an ally of the parliamentary opposition; a Visitor of the University of Oxford 1 May 1647; a liberal benefactor to religious and charitable causes; a collection of letters and state papers formed by Packer was calendared HMC 2nd Report, 49-63, when in the possession of J. B. Fortescue, and a selection of them was edited for the Camden Society by S. R. Gardiner under the title The Fortescue Papers; a book of Greek and Latin verses composed by Packer when at Cambridge is Lansdowne MS 693 in the British Library; lic. to m. 3 Jul 1613 Philippa, sister of John Mylles (qv); d. 9 Feb 1648/9. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.