There have been two baronetcies created for persons with the surname Pakington, one in the

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and one in the

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. The latter is extant . The Pakington baronetcy, of Ailesbury in the County of Buckingham, was created in the Baronetage of England on 22 June 1620 for John Pakington, subsequently

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for

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. The second Baronet represented

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and Aylesbury in the

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. The third, fourth and fifth Baronets all sat as Members of Parliament for Worcestershire. The title became extinct on the death of the eighth Baronet in 1830.George Edward Cokayne ''Complete Baronetage Volume 1'' 1900
/ref> The Pakington estates were passed on to the late Baronet's nephew, John Russell, who assumed the surname of Pakington and was created a baronet in 1848 (see below). The Pakington baronetcy, of Westwood in the County of Worcester, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 13 July 1846 for John Pakington. Born John Russell, he was the son of William Russell and his wife Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the seventh Baronet of the 1620 creation, and assumed the surname of Pakington in lieu of his patronymic on succeeding to the Pakington estates in 1830. In 1874 he was elevated to the peerage as

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. For more information on this creation, see this title.

Ancestors

*Sir

Robert Pakington Robert Pakington (c. 1489 – 13 November 1536) was a London merchant and Member of Parliament. He was murdered with a handgun in London in 1536, likely the first such killing in the city. His murder was later interpreted as martyrdom, and reco ...

, Member of Parliament for London in the time of Henry VIII, murdered 1537. *Sir

Thomas Pakington Sir Thomas Pakington (–1571) of Hampton, Worcestershire, was knighted by Queen Mary on 2 October 1553 and was Sheriff of Worcester in 1561. Biography Thomas Pakington was the son of Robert Pakington, a London mercer and an M.P. for the City in ...

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in 1561, died 1571. * John Pakington (died 1625) (1549–1625)

Pakington baronets, of Ailesbury (1620)

Sir John Pakington, 1st Baronet Sir John Pakington, 1st Baronet (1600–1624) was an Pakington baronets, English baronet and M.P. for Aylesbury (UK Parliament constituency), Aylesbury in 1623–24. Biography John was the only son of John Pakington (died 1625). He was created a b ...

(–1624) *

Sir John Pakington, 2nd Baronet Sir John Pakington, 2nd Baronet (13 August 1621 – 1680) of Westwood House, near Droitwich, Worcestershire was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1640 and 1679. He supported the Royalist cause in the ...

(–1680) *

Sir John Pakington, 3rd Baronet Sir John Pakington, 3rd Baronet, (c. 1649 – March 1688) of Westwood House near Droitwich, Worcestershire was the only surviving son of Sir John Pakington, 2nd Baronet. Like most of his family he was a Tory and served as member of parliament fo ...

(c. 1649–1688) *

Sir John Pakington, 4th Baronet Sir John Pakington, 4th Baronet (1671–1727) of Westwood, near Droitwich, Worcestershire was an English Tory politician who sat in the English House of Commons, English and British House of Commons between 1690 and 1727. Pakington was the only ...

(1671–1727) *

Sir Herbert Perrott Pakington, 5th Baronet ''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as p ...

(c. 1701–1748) *Sir John Pakington, 6th Baronet (c. 1722–1762) cites *Sir Herbert Perrott Pakington, 7th Baronet (died 1795) *Sir John Pakington, 8th Baronet (1760–1830)

Pakington baronets, of Westwood (1846)

*see the

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