John Pakington (MP and Sheriff)

Sir John Pakington
Born	c.1477
Died	21 August 1551 Hampton Lovett, Worcestershire
Occupation	MP and Sheriff of Herefordshire and Worcestershire
Spouse(s)	Anne Dacres
Children	Bridget Pakington Ursula Pakington
Parent(s)	John Pakington, Elizabeth Washborne

Sir John Pakington (c.1477 – 21 August 1551), was Chirographer of the Court of Common Pleas, a Member of Parliament for Gloucester, and Sheriff of Herefordshire and Worcestershire. In 1529 he received an extraordinary grant from Henry VIII permitting him to wear his hat in the King's presence.

Although the Pakington family is of great antiquity, being recorded at the time of the foundation of St Mary's Abbey, Kenilworth, in the reign of Henry I, according to Burke the 'founder of the fortunes of the house of Pakington' was the lawyer Sir John Pakington in the reign of Henry VIII.

Born about 1477, he was the eldest son of John Pakington of Stanford-on-Teme, Worcestershire, and Elizabeth Washbourne, the daughter and heiress of Thomas Washbourne. He had three brothers, Humphrey, Robert and Augustine, and three sisters: Joyce married firstly a husband surnamed Blount, and secondly John Corbet of Leigh, Shropshire; Eleanor married a husband surnamed Gravener, of Shropshire; and Margery married a husband surnamed Neve.

Pakington began his legal career in about 1498 as an attorney in the Court of Common Pleas. He entered the Inner Temple shortly before 1505, and in 1507 was acting as counsel in the Court of Requests. He may have secured patronage at court, which could account for his appointment in 1508 as Chirographer of the Court of Common Pleas, an office in the gift of the Crown. In 1512 he was appointed solicitor for the Mercers' Company. In the following year he was a Justice of the Peace in Gloucestershire, and in 1515 was elected to represent Gloucester in Parliament. He became a Bencher of the Inner Temple in 1517, was Lent Reader in 1520 and again in 1528.

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