Edward Packe

Sir Edward Hussey Packe KBE DL JP (6 January 1878 – 11 May 1946) was a British civil servant.

[1][2][3] He was the son of Hussey Packe and his wife, Lady Alice, only daughter of John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley.

[3] He was High Sheriff of Leicestershire in 1911, and Chairman of Leicestershire County Council He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in the 1920 New Year Honours for service as private secretary to successive First Lords of the Admiralty.

He was also awarded the Legion of Honour and the Order of Crown of Italy.

They had two daughters: Packe lived at Prestwold Hall, Prestwold, near Loughborough, Leicestershire, which had been purchased by his ancestor Lord Mayor of London Sir Christopher Packe.