Sir Edward Packe

Sir Edward Hussey Packe KBE DL JP (6 January 1878 – 11 May 1946) was a British civil servant. Early life He was the son of Hussey Packe and his wife, Lady Alice, only daughter of John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley. His grandfather was politician George Hussey Packe. He was educated at Eton College. Public duty He was High Sheriff of Leicestershire in 1911, and Chairman of Leicestershire County Council Civil Service Assistant Private Secretary to The Most Honourable Henry Petty-FitzMaurice, 6th Marquess of Lansdowne at War Office (1900) Assistant Private Secretary to Right Honourable William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne at the Admiralty (1901–1905) Assistant Private Secretary to Right Honourable Frederick Archibald Vaughan Campbell, 3rd Earl Cawdor (1905) Assistant Private Secretary to Right Honourable Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour (1916) Assistant Private Secretary to Sir Edward Carson (1916–1917) Private Secretary to Sir Eric Geddes (1917–1919) Private Secretary to Walter Long (1919) Attached to Admiralty Staff (1914–1919)