H. D. Packard

Daniel Packard, MA (Caius College, Cambridge) (c. 1810 – 12 May 1862) and his wife Sarah née Devereux (1814 – 9 March 1886), who married in December 1835.

His father, rector of Middleton, Suffolk, was appointed to St Andrew's Anglican Church, Walkerville, South Australia.

In 1864 he was appointed second in command of the "Relief Party" sent to Escape Cliffs at the mouth of the Adelaide River, Northern Territory, to augment Colonel Finniss's expedition, which had been sent there to select and survey the site of a future settlement to be called Palmerston.

Packard and his wife, with their baby daughter only a few weeks old, left Port Adelaide in October 1864 for Escape Cliffs, where they remained, achieving little, for over two years.

On 21 December 1866 his wife gave birth to their second child, Eleanor Devereux Packard, remembered as the first European born in the Northern Territory.