Edward Packe

Sir Edward Hussey Packe KBE DL JP was a British civil servant.

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
Assistant Private Secretary to Right Honourable William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne at the Admiralty
Assistant Private Secretary to Right Honourable Frederick Archibald Vaughan Campbell, 3rd Earl Cawdor
Assistant Private Secretary to Right Honourable Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour
Assistant Private Secretary to Sir Edward Carson
Private Secretary to Sir Eric Geddes
Private Secretary to Walter Long
Attached to Admiralty Staff
Honours

He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1920 New Year Honours for service as private secretary to successive First Lords of the Admiralty. He was also awarded the Legion of Honour and the Order of Crown of Italy.

Personal life

He married, in 1909, 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 in 1936 and assumed as additional surname Packe and had issue Simon Jasper Packe-Drury-Lowe.
Ursula Sybil Packe who married first in 1934 Peter Clifton of Clifton Hall Clifton, Nottinghamshire and divorced. She married secondly Lord David Crichton-Stuart later Stuart son of 4th Marquess of Bute and had issue.

Packe lived at Prestwold Hall, Prestwold, near Loughborough, Leicestershire, which had been purchased by his ancestor Lord Mayor of London Sir Christopher Packe. He died at Prestwold Hall in 1946.