Charles William Packe (23 September 1792 – 27 October 1867) was a

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Conservative Party politician.

Family

Packe was the oldest son of Charles James Packe and Penelope Dugdale, daughter of Richard Dugdale of

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. He was also the brother of Great Northern Railway deputy chairman and Liberal politician

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. He married Kitty Jenkyn Reading, daughter of Thomas Hort, in 1822.

Wealth

He inherited

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upon his father's death in 1837, and later acquired Glen Hall and an 18-acre estate in southern

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for £2,530 in 1837 and, a decade later, Stretton Hall for £30,000, financed by a mortgage from Sir George Robinson. In 1842, he commissioned

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to redesign

, spending a reported £70,000 over the next two decades on improvements and further land close to the hall. A decade later, he spent £12,000 on a house and 745 acres of land at Branksome in

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, also using Burn, via a loan of £7,000. Packe was also a keen investor in bank stock, government consols, and railway shares, the latter of which he had £4,050 in during the mid-1840s. By the time of his death, Packe owned 2,464 acres in Leicestershire, worth £4,267 gross a year, with a gross personal wealth of £35,000.

Political career

He was elected MP for

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at a by-election in 1836 and held the seat until his death in 1867. During this time, he rented a home at Richmond Terrace, just off

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, in

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