Edward Packard (businessman, born 1843)

Sir Edward Packard, junior (28 September, 1843, Saxmundham – 1932 Bramford), was an English businessman who developed a major artificial fertilizer industry near Ipswich, Suffolk.

He also was active in the formation and development of the Ipswich Art Club, also contributing a number of his paintings to various exhibitions.

He maintained and continued his father's strong interest in and support for the Ipswich Museum, and served as Chairman of its Committee from 1894 to 1926.

[6] He was active in negotiating arrangements for Nina Layard to conduct extensive excavations and to have curatorship of her collections at Christchurch Mansion in 1906-07, under very trying circumstances.

They set up home in Grove House, Bramford where Edward lived for the rest of his life.