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Packer was baptized on 10 February 1678, the only son of John Packer of
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Commons. He voted on 18 June 1713 for the French commerce bill. At the
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Winchcombe inheritance which he finally gained possession of in about 1733, after an ongoing dispute with Bolingbroke.
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for the year 1708 to 1709. When St. John was raised to the peerage as
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Packer died on 4 April 1731. He had five sons, of whom one predeceased him, and one daughter. His eldest son
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