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Packe
Packe is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Charles Packe (1826–1896), British lawyer *Charles Packe (cricketer) ( 1909–1944), English cricketer *Charles Packe (MP) (1792–1867), British politician * Christopher Packe (chemist) (b. in or before 1657, d. in or after 1708), English chemist *Christopher Packe (politician) (c. 1599–1682), Lord Mayor of London and member of the Drapers Company * Christopher Packe (painter) (1760–1840), British portrait and landscape painter * Christopher Packe (physician and cartographer) (1686–1749), English physician and geologist *Edward Packe (1878–1946), British civil servant *George Hussey Packe (1796–1874), British politician an army officer present at the Battle of Waterloo * Horace Packe (1865–1934), Archdeacon of Southland from 1913 until 1922 * Michael Packe (1916–1978), British historian, biographer and cricketer * Robert Packe (1913–1935), English cricketer See also * Pack (other) * Packer ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Hussey Packe
George Hussey Packe (1 May 1796 – 2 July 1874) was a United Kingdom Member of Parliament, an army officer present at the Battle of Waterloo, and was instrumental in establishing the Great Northern Railway. Personal life George Hussey Packe was a scion of the family of Sir Christopher Packe, a 17th-century Lord Mayor of London. He was born at Hanthorpe House, Morton and Hanthorpe, Lincolnshire in 1796, the second son to Charles James Packe (1758–1837), of Prestwold Hall, Leicestershire, and his first wife Penelope, of Blythe Hall, Warwickshire. He married in 1824 Maryanne-Lidia (1796–1876), daughter of John Heathcote – of Connington Castle, Huntingdonshire, and MP for Ripon – and Mary Anne (née Thornhill). They had two children: Marianne Penelope Packe (1832–1921) and Hussey Packe (1846–1908).Sylvanus, Urban; ''The Gentleman's Magazine'' (1837), volume 7, p. 656Howard, Joseph Jackson, Crisp, Frederick Arthur (1899); ''Visitations of England and Wales'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Packe (politician)
Sir Christopher Packe (1593?–1682), Lord Mayor of London; member of the Drapers Company; lord mayor, 1654; a prominent member of the Company of Merchant Adventurers; knighted and appointed an admiralty commissioner, 1655; a strong partisan of Oliver Cromwell, proposing on 23 February 1656, in the Protector's last Parliament, a Remonstrance (which became known as the "Humble Petition and Advice") which initially proposed that Cromwell should assume the title of king. He was disqualified at the restoration of the monarchy from holding any public office. Early life Christopher Packe was son of Thomas Packe of Kettering or Grafton, Northamptonshire, and Catherine his wife, was born about 1593. He seems to have been apprenticed at an early age to one John Kendrick, who died in 1624, and left him a legacy of £100. Packe married a kinswoman of his master Kendrick, set up in business in the woollen trade on his own account, and soon amassed a large fortune. He was an influential memb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Packe
Michael St John Packe (21 August 1916 – 20 December 1978) was an English historian, biographer, and cricketer.John Arlott, "From Time to Time: Michael Packe, late British author and cricketer" ''The Guardian'', 13 June 1986. He was the author of ''The Life of John Stuart Mill'' (1954), and four other historical works. A right-handed batsman, he played for Leicestershire County Cricket Club between 1936 and 1939, captaining them in 1939.Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1980Obituaries before 1979/ref> He also played first-class cricket for Cambridge University and represented the Egypt national cricket team. Personal life Born in Eastbourne in 1916, Michael Packe was the younger brother of Charles and Robert Packe, both of whom also played cricket for Leicestershire. He was educated at Wellington College and Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he read history. During World War II he served in the Royal Army Service Corps in the First Airborne Division, where he attained the rank ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Packe
Charles Packe (22 August 1826 – 16 July 1896) was an English lawyer and explorer who is noted for his travels in and writing about the Pyrenees. Family Packe was born in 1826, the oldest son of Edmund Packe, a captain in the Royal Horse Guards.Biography of Packe , pyrenees-passion.com, accessed 22 January 2010 Pyrenees Packe first went to the Pyrenees in 1853, making a traverse of the range. Two years later he travelled to the Alps, a description of which appeared in 1857 as ''The Spirit of Travel''. In 1857 and 1858 he returned to the Pyrenees for further explorative trips, and moved there permanently in 1859. In 1861 Packe made the second ascent of Posets (3371 m), the seco ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Packe (cricketer)
Charles William Christopher Packe (2 May 1909 – 1 July 1944) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Leicestershire County Cricket Club, Leicestershire between 1929 and 1934 and captained the team for much of the 1932 season. He was born at Pietermaritzburg, South Africa and died near Caen, France, during the Second World War. He was a career army officer and also played cricket for the British Army cricket team. Cricket career Packe was a right-handed middle-order batsman. Though born in South Africa, his family was settled at Great Glen Hall in Leicestershire and he played for Leicestershire's second eleven in the Minor Counties Championship from 1927. He made his first-class cricket debut in a single match for the county towards the end of the 1929 season, but then did not play again for the next two seasons. In 1932, Leicestershire struggled to find an amateur status in first-class cricket, amateur to captain the team; the 1931 captain, Eddie Dawson wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Packe (physician And Cartographer)
Christopher Packe (1686–1749) was an English physician and geologist. His 1743 work ''A New Philosophico-chorographical Chart of East Kent'' was the first geological map of Southern England. Life Packe was born at St. Albans, Hertfordshire, on 6 March 1686. He was probably the son of Christopher Packe the chemist. Packe was admitted to Merchant Taylors' School on 11 September 1695. He was created M.D. at Cambridge in 1717, and was admitted a candidate of the College of Physicians on 25 June 1723. At the request of Robert Romney, the then vicar, he gave an organ to the Church of St Peter, St. Albans, the organ being inaugurated on 16 January 1726. About 1726 Packe settled at Canterbury. He practiced as a physician, with a good reputation, for nearly a quarter of a century. He died on 15 November 1749, and was buried in St. Mary Magdalene, Canterbury. Bibliography Packe had a heated controversy with Dr. John Gray of Canterbury respecting the treatment of Robert Worger of Hinxhi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Packe
Sir Edward Hussey Packe KBE DL JP (6 January 1878 – 11 May 1946) was a British civil servant.Sir Edward Packe (Obituaries) The Times Monday, May 13, 1946; pg. 7; Issue 50450; col D Early life He was the son of Hussey Packe and his wife, Lady Alice, only daughter of John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley. His grandfather was politician George Hussey Packe. He was educated at Eton College. Public duty He was High Sheriff of Leicestershire in 1911, and Chairman of Leicestershire County Council Civil Service *Assistant Private Secretary to The Most Honourable Henry Petty-FitzMaurice, 6th Marquess of Lansdowne at War Office (1900)Who's Who 1935 - Entry for Sir Edward Hussey Packe *Assistant Private Secretary to Right Honourable William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne at the Admiralty (1901–1905) *Assistant Private Secretary to Right Honourable Frederick Archibald Vaughan Campbell, 3rd Earl Cawdor (1905) *Assistant Private Secretary to Right Honourable Arthur James Balfour, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Packe (MP)
Charles William Packe (23 September 1792 – 27 October 1867) was a British Conservative Party politician. Family Packe was the oldest son of Charles James Packe and Penelope Dugdale, daughter of Richard Dugdale of Blyth Hall. He was also the brother of Great Northern Railway deputy chairman and Liberal politician George Hussey Packe. He married Kitty Jenkyn Reading, daughter of Thomas Hort, in 1822. Wealth He inherited Prestwold Hall upon his father's death in 1837, and later acquired Glen Hall and an 18-acre estate in southern Leicestershire for £2,530 in 1837 and, a decade later, Stretton Hall for £30,000, financed by a mortgage from Sir George Robinson. In 1842, he commissioned William Burn to redesign Prestwold Hall, spending a reported £70,000 over the next two decades on improvements and further land close to the hall. A decade later, he spent £12,000 on a house and 745 acres of land at Branksome in Dorset, also using Burn, via a loan of £7,000. Packe was also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Packe (chemist)
Christopher Packe (born in or before 1657, died in or after 1708), was an English chemist. Packe set up his laboratory in 1670 at the sign of the "Globe and Chemical Furnaces" in Little Moorfields, London, and styled himself a professor of chemical medicine. He practised as a quack under powerful patronage, including that of the Hon. Robert Boyle and Edmund Dickinson, physician to the king, and in 1684 he circulated a list of his specifics. Bibliography In 1689 Packe brought out in goodly folio a translation of the "''Works of the highly experienced and famous chymist, John Rudolph Glauber''", accompanied by the original copper plates, which he had purchased at Amsterdam. This undertaking occupied him three years, and he secured a large number of subscribers. Packe other publications were chiefly designed to promote the sale of his specifics, and are as follows: *'' De Succo Pancreatico; or a Physical and Anatomical Treatise of the Nature and Office of the Pancreatick Juice,'' 12 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Packe (painter)
Faithful Christopher Packe or Pack (1760–1840) was an English painter.. Birth and death dates as given in the ''ODNB'' which differ from those in the older DNB Life Packe, born in Norwich in 1760, was son of a quaker merchant belonging to a family which claimed connection with that of Sir Christopher Packe, lord mayor of London. Packe showed an early taste for painting, but at first was engaged in his father's business. On that, however, being seriously injured by pecuniary losses, Pack adopted painting as a profession, and came to London. He made friends with John Hamilton Mortimer, and also obtained an introduction to Sir Joshua Reynolds, making some good copies of the latter's portraits. In 1786 Packe exhibited a portrait of himself at the Royal Academy, and in 1787 two more portraits. He then returned to Norwich to practice as a portrait-painter, and shortly after went to Liverpool. Having a recommendation from Reynolds to the Duke of Rutland, then viceroy in Dublin, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Packe
Robert Julian Packe (8 July 1913 – 24 October 1935) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Leicestershire in 1933. He was born in Hounslow and died in Ahmednagar, India. He appeared in three first-class matches as a right-handed batsman who bowled slow left-arm orthodox spin. He scored 25 runs with a highest score of 12 and took one wicket with a best performance of one for 31. Packe's two brothers, Charles and Michael, also played first-class cricket for Leicestershire and both captained the side. Packe was a second lieutenant in the Royal Fusiliers and died after contracting dysentery Dysentery (UK pronunciation: , US: ), historically known as the bloody flux, is a type of gastroenteritis that results in bloody diarrhea. Other symptoms may include fever, abdominal pain, and a feeling of incomplete defecation. Complications ... on service in India. References 1913 births 1935 deaths English cricketers Leicestershire cricketers Deaths from dysen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horace Packe
Horace Packe (22 March 1865 – 2 December 1934) was the Archdeacon of Southland from 1913 until 1922. Packe was born in Shangton on 22 March 1865; educated at St Edward's School, Oxford and Worcester College, Oxford and deacon in 1891 and priest in 1892. After curacies in Hastings, Darrington and Georgetown he was Chaplain to the Gold Coast Colony then Vicar of Suva. He came to New Zealand in 1907 and was Vicar of Wakatipu until his appointment as Archdeacon An archdeacon is a senior clergy position in the Church of the East, Chaldean Catholic Church, Syriac Orthodox Church, Anglican Communion, St Thomas Christians, Eastern Orthodox churches and some other Christian denominations, above that o .... Packe died in Gisborne on 2 December 1934. References Archdeacons of Southland Alumni of Worcester College, Oxford 1865 births People from Harborough District People educated at St Edward's School, Oxford 1934 deaths {{Christian-clergy-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
