RARE \"1st Baron Hampton\" John Pakington Cut Signature For Sale

Up for sale a RARE! "1st Baron Hampton" John Pakington Clipped Signature. 

ES-3184D

John Somerset Pakington, 1st 1799 – 9 April 1880), known as Sir John Pakington, Bt,

from 1846 to 1874, was a John Somerset Russell, Hampton was the son of William Russell and

Elizabeth Pakington, the member of a prominent Worcestershire family. Elizabeth was the sister and heiress

of Sir John Pakington, the 8th and last Baronet Pakington of Ailesbury. John Somerset was educated at Eton and Oriel College, Oxford and

assumed in 1830 by Royal Licence the surname of Pakington in lieu of his

patronymic on inheriting the estates of his maternal uncle. These

included Westwood House in

Worcestershire and Pakington moved in there with his first wife

in 1832. Pakington was elected at the fourth attempt as the Tory Member of a seat he held until 1874. He was given office by Sir Robert Peel in 1841 and created in 1846 first Baronet

Pakington of the second creation, of Westwood in the County of Worcester. He

next served under Lord Derby as Secretary of

State for War and the Colonies in 1852 and was sworn of the Privy

Council the same year. The government lasted only a year and in

opposition he developed an interest in education reform, introducing in 1855 an

unsuccessful Education Bill which foreshadowed the 1870 Act. With the Tories

back in power he again held office under Lord Derby as First Lord

of the Admiralty from 1858 to 1859 and from 1866 to 1867. As First Lord he commissioned the

first ironclad warship, HMS Warrior, launched in 1860. Under Derby

and his successor Benjamin Disraeli he

was Secretary of State for War from

1867 to 1868. He was appointed a GCB in 1859. Hampton lost his seat in the Commons in the

1874 election and was raised to the peerage as Baron Hampton,

of Hampton Lovett and of

Westwood in the County of Worcester. Hampton served for many years as chairman

of the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal

Society in Jun, 1858. He was also President of the Royal Statistical Society from

1861 to 1863 and Chief Civil Service Commissioner from 1875 until his death. Lord Hampton

married firstly Mary, daughter of Moreton Aglionby Slaney, on 14 August 1822.

After her death in 1843 he married secondly Augusta, daughter of the Right

Reverend George Murray, on 2 June

1844. After her death in 1848 he married thirdly Augusta Anne, daughter of

Thomas Champion de Crespigny, and widow of Thomas Davies, MP, on 5 June 1851.

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.