[2][5] The second son, John became the heir when his elder brother William Herbert Russell died in 1819, and he left Oxford without a degree.

[10] He was first given office by Sir Robert Peel in 1841 and created in 1846 Baronet Pakington of the second creation, of Westwood in the County of Worcester.

[1] Pakington served under Lord Derby one-year administration, as Secretary of State for War and the Colonies in 1852.

[12] Pressed by Charles Adderley, he granted New Zealand a constitution qualified by London's control of policy on indigenous peoples.

As with Lord John Russell's previous effort, it foundered on the issue of Anglican schools that supposed nonconformist financial support.

[15] A butt of Derby's robust sense of humour, Pakington at a dinner in 1858 found himself being toasted by Derby who proposed "Sir John Pakington and the Wooden Spoons of Old England", the parliamentary wooden spoon being given to the Member who voted the fewest times in a session.

[23] Pakington had joined the ephemeral movement of John Scott Russell, signing with Stafford Northcote, Gathorne Hardy and some of the House of Lords a memorandum on social reform measures to be taken, the "seven points".

[24][25] In October, in an article "The New Social Movement", the Saturday Review commented: The pompous announcement of an alliance between the aristocracy and the artisans bears traces of Mr. Disraeli's earlier manner; but a serious belief in the practicability in the present day of a limited and regulated socialism is only worthy of Sir John Pakington or of Lord John Manners.

[26]Pakington, by now unpopular with Tory leaders, lost his seat in the Commons in the 1874 general election, defeated on a large swing from 1868 by John Corbett, a local Liberal.

[29] Lord Hampton died at his London home in April 1880, aged 81, and was succeeded by his son from his first marriage, John Slaney Pakington.