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This article is about the barrister and archiect. For the charity activist, see
Phil Packer
.
Philip Packer
FRS
(24 June 1618
Groombridge
,
Kent
? 24 December 1686) was an English
barrister
and
architect
. He was a
courtier
to
Charles II
, and friend to
Christopher Wren
.
He was educated at
University College, Oxford
where he
matriculated
in 1635. He then took up law at the
Middle Temple
and was
called to the bar
as a barrister in 1647.
[1]
He rebuilt
Groombridge Place
with Wren's help in 1662.
[2]
[3]
On 21 May 1669, he met with
Samuel Pepys
.
[4]
He was an
Original Fellow of the Royal Society
.
Family
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His parents were John Packer, Clerk of the Privy Seal (12 Nov 1572 ? 15 Feb 1649), and Philippa Mills.
He married Isabella Berkeley in 1653 in Groombridge, Kent; they had seven children:
- Robert Packer (died aged 16)
[5]
- John Philip Packer Esq. of Groombridge (1655 Groombridge ? 16 December 1697)
- Katherine Packer (1661 Groombridge, Kent, England ? 30 Nov 1722
Finedon
, Northampton, England)
- Isabella Packer
- Elizabeth Packer
- Temperance Packer (1663)
He married Sarah Isgar on 20 December 1666. Prior to their marriage, Philip and Sarah had three children in Ireland where Philip owned extensive properties:
[6]
- Philip Packer (19 March 1664 - 1739), who emigrated to
New Jersey
.
- James Packer (3 March 1657 ? 12 Jul 1690) at the
Battle of the Boyne
, Ireland.
- William Packer (died 1690 in Battle of Boyne).
References
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- ^
http://www2.royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28Surname%3D%27packer%27%29
[
dead link
]
- ^
England 2010
, Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince, Frommer's, 2009,
ISBN
978-0-470-47070-1
- ^
West Kent and the Weald
, John Newman, Yale University Press, 1980,
ISBN
978-0-300-09614-9
- ^
"Samuel Pepys Diary May 1669 complete"
.
www.pepys.info
. Archived from
the original
on 5 May 2003.
- ^
Maidment, Barbara (2005).
A History of Groombridge Place
. Chelwood Gate: Danewood Press Ltd. p. 26.
ISBN
0954120701
.
- ^
Maidment, Barbara (2001).
A history of Groombridge Place
. Brighton: Groombridge Past. p. 25.
ISBN
0954120701
.
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