Edward Packe
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Sir Edward Hussey Packe KBE DL JP(6 January 1878 – 11 May 1946) was a British civil servant.[1][2]
Early life
He was the son of Hussey Packe, the second but first surviving son of George Hussey Packe and his wife Lady Alice Packe, only daughter of the John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley.
Resident
Edward Hussey Packe lived at Prestwold Hall, Prestwold near Loughborough , Leicestershire which had been purchased by his ancestor Lord Mayor of London Sir Christopher Packe.
Family life
He married, in 1911 The Honourable Mary Sydney Colebrooke, daughter of Edward Colebrooke, 1st Baron Colebrooke. They had two daughters:
- Penelope Mary Packe who married, as his second wife, John Drury Boteler Packe-Drury-Lowe (1905–1960) in 1936 and assumed as additional surname Packe and had issue Simon Jasper Packe-Drury-Lowe (born 1938). John Drury Lowe was previously married in 1930 to Rosemary Margeurite Hope-Vere daughter of Lt-Col. James Charles Hope-Vere of Craigie Hall, and had issue Patrick John Boteler Drury-Lowe (1931–1993).
- Ursula Sybil Packe who married first in 1934 Peter Clifton of Clifton Hall Clifton, Nottinghamshire and divorced no issue of marriage and married secondly Lord David Crichton-Stuart later Stuart (1911–1970) son of 4th Marquess of Bute and had issue.
Public duty
He was High Sheriff of Leicestershire in 1911.
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)[3]
- Assistant Private Secretary to Right Honourable William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne at the Admiralty (1901–1905)[3]
- Assistant Private Secretary to Right Honourable Frederick Archibald Vaughan Campbell, 3rd Earl Cawdor (1905)[3]
- Assistant Private Secretary to Right Honourable Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour (1916)[3]
- Assistant Private Secretary to Sir Edward Carson (1916–1917)[3]
- Private Secretary to Sir Eric Geddes (1917–1919)[3]
- Private Secretary to Walter Long (1919)[3]
- Attached to Admiralty Staff (1914–1919)[3]
Titles and styles
Knighted (KBE) in 1920.
- Edward Hussey Packe (1878–1920)
- Sir Edward Hussey Packe (1920–1946)
- Legion of Honour[3]
- Order of Crown of Italy[3]
References
- ^ ‘PACKE, Sir Edward Hussey’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Oct 2012 accessed 28 Dec 2013
- ^ Sir Edward Packe (Obituaries) The Times Monday, May 13, 1946; pg. 7; Issue 50450; col D
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Who's Who 1935 - Entry for Sir Edward Hussey Packe