Robert Packer (12 September 1614 – 25 February 1682) of Shellingford, Berkshire was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1646 and 1679, as well as being Usher of the Exchequer.
Packer was the eldest son of the Clerk of the Privy Seal, John Packer of Shellingford Manor in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire) [1] and his wife, Philippa, the daughter of Francis Mills of Bitterne in Hampshire.
He was educated at University College, Oxford and succeeded his father in 1649.
In 1660, Packer was elected again as MP for Wallingford in the Convention Parliament.
[2] Packer married Temperance Stephens daughter of Col. Edward Stephens of Little Sodbury in Gloucestershire,[1] by whom he had at least four children.