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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. 656〕〔Howard, Joseph Jackson, Crisp, Frederick Arthur (1899); ''Visitations of England and Wales'', volume 7, p. 167. ISBN 1146165595〕〔("Kimberley, Earl of (UK, 1866)" ), Cracroft's Peerage (The London Will Company Limited). Retrieved 30 December 2013〕 Packe inherited Prestwold Hall and its estates.〔White, Philip; ("Heroes of Waterloo" ), Retrieved 30 December 2013〕 Caythorpe Hall at Caythorpe, Lincolnshire was a further residence, built for him in 1823, and a rebuild of a previous hall, the residence of Sir Giles Hussey. Packe was Lord of the Manor of Caythorpe, with the parish living and rectory under his patronage. He built and supported the village school connected to St Vincent's Church, and for the church provided a peal of eight bells and a clock.〔''Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire'' 1855, p. 57〕〔''Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull'' 1885, pp. 356–357〕〔("The Exterior – The Clock" ), Caythorpe and Frieston Parish Council. Retrieved 30 December 2013〕 By 1836 he had become a Justice of the Peace for Leicestershire, Kesteven in Lincolnshire, and Huntingdonshire.〔''Parliamentary Accounts and Papers'' (1836), Great Britain; Parliament; House of Commons, volume 43, p. 41. ISBN 1148635475〕 He was also chairman of the Kesteven Quarter Sessions, a Deputy Lieutenant of Lincolnshire, and, in 1843, High sheriff of Lincolnshire.〔 In 1871 Packe gave evidence to a House of Lords committee in support of a petition by Clementina Elizabeth, Dowager Lady Aveland of Grimsthorpe Castle. The petition, presented upon the death of her brother, Albyric Drummond-Willoughby, sought to attach the descendency of the Heathcote Baronetcy to her in preference to her sister. Packe stated his close personal knowledge of the Willoughby de Eresby family, that Albyric Drummond-Willoughby died without heir, and corroborated details of the Dowager Lady Aveland's siblings.〔''( Case on behalf of The Right Honorable Clementina Elizabeth dowager lady Aveland, the elder of the two heirs to the Barony of Willoughby de Eresby'' ), "Minutes of Evidence", p. 16-18. Retrieved 30 December 2013〕 George Hussey Packe died 2 July 1874, aged 78, at 41 Charles Street, Berkeley Square, London, and was buried at Prestwold,〔〔Burke, Bernard; ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland''; volume 2, p. 136. ISBN 1248447336〕 where a monument to him lies within St Andrew's Church.〔"Prestwold". Kelly's Directory of Leicestershire & Rutland (1899)〕 After his death the Prestwold and Caythorpe Hall estates were inherited by his son, Hussey Packe. Hussey Packe married in 1872 Lady Alice Wodehouse (1850–1937), daughter of the 3rd Baron Wodehouse KG, PC.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「George Hussey Packe」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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