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Robert Pakington:[1]
Robert, one of four sons of John Pakington and Elizabeth Washborne was born say 1489 at Stanford-on-Teme, Worcestershire.[2]
Robert Pakington was married twice. He married 1) Agnes (alias Ann; Katharine) Baldwin, likely at Buckinghamshire. She was the daughter of Sir John Baldwin, MP, Chief Justice of Common Pleas and Alice Dormer. They married in or before 1524, because on 18 May, 38 Henry VIII [1546], Thomas Pakyngton had a signed bill for the grant of livery of lands as kinsman and heir of Sir John Baldewyn, late chief justice of Common Pleas, that is son and heir of Robert Pakyngton and Agnes his wife, one of the daughters and coheirs of Sir John.[3] Thomas would have been in his majority to be granted livery.
Robert and Agnes had two sons and three daughters:
Robert Packington married 2) Katherine Dallam (-1563), the daughter of Thomas Dallam, member of the Worshipful Company of Skinners and the Company's Warden in 1497. Katherine's first husband was Richard Collier (-1533) by whom she had a son and a daughter, George and Dorothy Collier.
Following Packington's death, Katherine (Dallam) Collier-Pakington married 3) Sir Michael Dormer (-20 Sep 1545), the son of Geoffrey Dormer (-9 Mar 1503) of West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire by his second wife, Alice Collingridge. Dormer was a wealthy Mercer and Lord Mayor of London in 1541. Katherine's two Collier children died about the time of her marriage to Dormer.
By 1510 Pakington had completed an apprenticeship with the Mercers' Company, one of the twelve great livery companies of London, and was exporting cloth and importing various wares. In 1523, and again in 1529, he and others were chosen to draw up articles on behalf of the Mercers for presentation to Parliament. According to Marshall, one of the articles drawn up in 1529 was "sharply anti-clerical". In the final years of his life Pakington reported to Thomas Cromwell on matters in Flanders at the behest of Cromwell's man of business, Stephen Vaughan, who held strongly Protestant sympathies.[4] In 1527-8 Pakington was elected Warden of the Company.[5]Packington was elected to Parliament in a by-election in October 1533, and was re-elected in 1536. [6]
Robert Pakington was shot to death outside of his house on 13 November 1536 in his say 47th year by an unknown assailant while on his way to mass at St Thomas of Acre Chapel in Cheapside. He was shot with a wheellock pistol. Theories regarding his murder include that it was ordered by conservative bishops, or John Stokesley, Bishop of London, or John Incent, Dean of St Paul's. Pakington was definitely interested in Reform and Rose Hickman, a Protestant, recalled how he "used to bring English bybles from beyond sea".
Derek Wilson points out that "poor Robert Packington probably holds the dubious distinction of being the first person in England to be killed with a handgun." His assasination can be read about in Derek Wilson's article, The Hunt for the Tudor Hitman. Wilson actually used Packington's unsolved murder in his historical thriller The First Horseman. [7][8][9]
Robert Pakington was buried at St. Pancras Old Churchyard, St Pancras, London Borough of Camden, Greater London, England[10]
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