PACKER, JOHN, brother of Winchcombe Howard Packer (qv); bapt. 15 Jun 1705; adm. (aged 11) Feb 1716/7; in under school list 1720; EICS Madras 1726; murdered at Fort St. David 26 Sep 1727.
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.
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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