Robert Pakington MP
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Robert Pakington MP (abt. 1489 - 1536)

Robert Pakington MP
Born about in Stanford on Teme, Worcestershire, Englandmap
Ancestors ancestors
Husband of — married before 1525 in Buckinghamshire, Englandmap [uncertain]
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Died at about age 47 in London, Englandmap
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Biography

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Robert Pakington:[1]

  • Member of Parliament and London merchant
  • Completed apprenticeship with Mercers' Company
  • Chosen to draw up articles on behalf of Mercers for presentation to Parliament
  • Elected Warden of the Company in 1527-28
  • Reported to Thomas Cromwell on matters in Flanders on behest of Stephen Vaughan
  • Grandfather of Queen Elizabeth I's favorite, Sir John "Lusty" Pakington
  • Shot and killed with a gun crossing the street from his home in Cheapside to attend Mercer's Chapel, likely first murder to be committed with a handgun in London

Birth and Parents

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Robert Pakington MP was born in Worcestershire, England.

Robert, one of four sons of John Pakington and Elizabeth Washborne was born say 1489 at Stanford-on-Teme, Worcestershire.[2]

Marriages and Children

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:

  1. Sir Thomas Pakington (born before 18 May, 1525;[3] d. 2 Jun 1571) m. Dorothy Kitson (1531-1577)
  2. John Pakington - no further information
  3. Elizabeth Pakington (b. ; d. ) m. 1) John Lane (-12 Sep 1557) of Walgrave, Northamptonshire; 2) Sir Richard Malory, Alderman of London and Lord Mayor in 1564
  4. Anne Pakington (b. ; d. ) m. Richard Cupper, Esq. of Glympton, Oxfordshire
  5. Margaret Pakington (b. ; d. ) m. 1) Benedict Lee, Esq. (-1559), of Burston, Buckinghamshire, half-brother of Sir Anthony Lee, and a henchman to Henry VIII; m. 2) Thomas Scott, Esq. of Yorkshire.

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.

Occupation

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]

Death and Burial

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]

St Pancras Old Church

Research Notes

  • Sources sent to support birth year of 1489 and death date of 13 November 1536 to Find-A-Grave on 7 April 2023.

Sources

  1. Wikipedia: Robert Pakington
  2. Miller, Helen (1982), "Pakington, Robert (by 1489–1536), of London", in Bindoff, S.T. (ed.), The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509–1558, Boydell and Brewer.
  3. 3.0 3.1 James Gairdner, CB, LL.D, and R H Brodie, ed., "970. Grants in May 1546." Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic of the Reign of Henry VIII. Vol. XXI.—Part 1, 21 volumes, (London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1908), 485. e-Book Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/letterspapersfor21greauoft/page/485/mode/1up : accessed 2 April, 2023). No 37.
  4. Marshall, Peter (October 2008). "Pakington, Robert (b. in or before 1489, d. 1536)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/96818. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  5. Miller, Helen. "Pakington, Robert (by 1489–1536), of London", in Bindoff, S.T. (ed.), The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509–1558, Boydell and Brewer, 1982.
  6. https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/pakington-robert-1489-1536
  7. https://www.tudorsociety.com/13-november-1536-the-murder-of-robert-packington/
  8. https://historica.fandom.com/wiki/Robert_Pakington
  9. https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/jew3sw/englands_first_murder_by_gun_who_shot_robert/
  10. Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/147935689/robert-pakington: accessed 15 February 2023), memorial page for Robert Pakington (1496–13 Nov 1537), Find a Grave Memorial ID 147935689, citing St. Pancras Old Churchyard, St Pancras, London Borough of Camden, Greater London, England; Maintained by Lauren (contributor 50944248).

See also:

  • Hodgetts, Michael. Harvington Hall, 1998. Page 25.
  • Baldwin, Charles C. The Baldwin Genealogy from 1500-1881. Cleveland, OH; The Leader Printing, 1881.
  • Lipscomb, George, Esq. M.D. The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham, Vol 2. London: J & W Robins, 1847.
  • John Baldwin (judge) Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=579411316 Contributors: Boleyn, Courcelles, FeanorStar7, Fritzelblitz, Ironholds, Necrothesp, Nimetapoeg, NinaGreen, PBS, Rjwilmsi, Tassedethe, Tim!




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Pakington-21 and Pakington-8 appear to represent the same person because: these appear to be the same person, the matter of his wife's name, Agnes or Margaret is still to be determined ... better sources need to be investigated.

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