The Honourable Lady Pakenham
(1798-1875)
9 September 1862

Volume 9, page 155, sitting number 11,617.

The Honourable Emily Stapleton was born in or about 1798, the fourth daughter of Thomas Stapleton, 12th Lord le Despenser, and Elizabeth, his wife, daughter of Samuel Eliot of Antigua. 

On 25 December 1817 she married the Honourable Hercules Robert Pakenham, third son of Edward Michael Pakenham, 2nd Baron Longford. Their marriage produced six sons and three daughters. One of their sons, Edward, was killed at Inkerman in 1854 and another, Robert, at Lucknow in 1857. 

A brother-in-law of the Duke of Wellington through his sister Kitty Pakenham, Hercules Pakenham was a veteran of the Peninsular campaign. He was for many years the Member of Parliament for Westmeath. He also served King William IV as an ADC. He was appointed CB in 1815 and KCB in 1838. 

Major-General the Honourable Sir Hercules Pakenham died on 7 March 1850 at his residence, Langford Lodge in County Antrim, Ireland. 

The Honourable Lady Pakenham died, aged 77, on 27 January 1875 at Southwick Park, Fareham, Hampshire. She left an estate valued at £8000. 

[From an album compiled by Margaret Randalina Barnewall, Lady Trimleston.]