Richard Pack LLD (1734 - 1781)

Born 1734 in County Kilkenny, Ireland

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Died Mar 1781 at about age 47 in Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, Ireland

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Biography

Church of Ireland Clergy

Rev. Richard Pack, was a brother of Rev. Thomas Pack, Dean of Ossory, and a son of Thomas Packe, a merchant from Ballinakill, Queen's Co. He entered Trinity College Dublin on 7 June 1748, aged 14. He received his B.A. in 1752, M.A. in 1773, LL.B. and LL.D. in 1774.

He was collated as Treasurer of Leighlin Cathedral on 2 January 1771. (FF.) He resigned on 5 February 1781. Between 1776 and 1781 he was also the Principal of Ormonde School, later called Kilkenny College.

Richard married Mary Percy, daughter of Anthony Percy.

Children

1. Thomas (Rev)
2. Anthony (Rev) b. c 1759, d. 31 Mar 1842 married Sarah Blunt
3. Richard
4. Mary - married Rev Thomas Tucker, Rector of Ballymaglasson in the Diocese of Meath, Ireland ?
5. Jane - married Rev Thomas Paul of Ballinderry, County Londonderry, Ireland ?
6. Anne
7. Samuel
8. Piercy [possibly William Percy]
9. Bartholomew (Rev) b. c 1769, d. 1849 married Barbara Harty
10. George

All of the above children, except for Bartholmew abd George, are named, as infants, in petitions, dated 1779 & 1780. Richard Pack and Mary (Percy) Pack are the executors for Jane Percy, widow. ^{[1] [2]}

He died in 1781.

Sources

1. ↑ Journals of the House of Lords, Volume 36, Great Britain House of Lords, H.M. Stationery Office, 1779, Pg 26
2. ↑ FindmyPast - Ireland, Court Of Exchequer Bill Books 1627-1884 - Date d 4 October 1784

• Find A Grave: Memorial #45239659
• Burial: Ballinakill Churchyard - Ballinakill County Laois, Ireland

• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=thepeerage&id=I616523
• Fasti ecclesiae Hibernicae: the succession of the prelates and members of the Cathedral bodies of Ireland by Henry Cotton, 1789-1879
• Vol 2 - The Province of Leinster, Pg 396

Other Sources

Pack Family of Kilkenny - [[1]] - Connections of Thomas PACK/PACKE of Ballynakill, Queens Co., who had 3 sons:

1. Rev. Thomas PACK (1720-1795) was Dean of Ossory, married Catherine daughter of Denis SULLIVAN, Esq.; both have monuments in the Cathedral Church of St. Canice, near that of their son, Maj-Gen Sir Denis PACK, KCB.

2. Rev. Richard PACK (1734-1781) married Mary daughter and heir of Anthony PERCY, Esq. of Ballintemple, Kings Co.; he was Master of Kilkenny College, and had several children.

3. Samuel PACK, Esq. married Jane daughter of Thomas CADDELL, Esq., connected to the Downpatrick family.

NOTES:

Reverend Richard Pack1 M, #616523, b. circa 1734, d. 1781- http://www.thepeerage.com/p61653.htm

Reverend Richard Pack was born circa 1734. He was the son of Thomas Pack and unknown Kelly.

He married Mary Percy, daughter of Anthony Percy. He died in 1781. He was the headmaster between 1776 and 1781 at Kilkenny College, Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, Ireland.

Children of Reverend Richard Pack and Mary Percy

1.Reverend Anthony Pack b. c 1759, d. 31 Mar 1842

2.Reverend Bartholomew Pack b. c 1769, d. 1849

Citations - 1.[S5587] Peggy ?, "re: Fenton Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger LUNDY (101053), 19 August 2011. Hereinafter cited as "re: Fenton Family."

[ http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/PACK-IRELAND/1999-08/0935410997 RICHARD PACK was born 1734 in Kilkenny, Ireland] and died Mar 1781. He Married Mary, dau. of Anthony Percy, Ballintemple, King's Co. & had seven sons & three daughters. He (Eric Pack) noted that two of the sons of Richard PACK and Mary PERCY were killed at Waterloo.

•"The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes: The Life and Times of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle." By Andrew Lycett Simon and Schuster, Nov 18, 2008 - Biography & Autobiography - 558 pages.

A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of ..., Volume 2 By Bernard Burke pg 1141

Acknowledgements

Thank you to Andrea Pack for family research