John Somerset Pakington, 1st Baron Hampton GCB PC FRS (20 February 1799 – 9 April 1880), known as Sir John Pakington, Bt from 1846 to 1874, was a British Conservative politician. President of The Institution of Naval Architects.
1799 John Somerset Russell was born at Slaughter's Court, Powick, Worcestershire, the second son of William Russell (d. 1812) and his wife, Elizabeth (d. 1813), daughter of Sir Herbert Perrott Pakington, seventh baronet.
1819 On the death of his elder brother he became heir to the family estates.
1830 Inherited, jointly with his maternal aunt, the estates of his uncle, Sir John Pakington, eighth baronet
1831 Assumed the name of Pakington
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.
1880 Obituary [1]
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