Philip Packer

This article is about the barrister and architect. For the charity activist, see Phil Packer.

Philip Packer FRS (24 June 1618 Groombridge, Kent – 24 December 1686) was an English barrister and architect. He was a courtier to Charles II, and friend to Christopher Wren.

He was educated at University College, Oxford where he matriculated in 1635. He then took up law at the Middle Temple and was called to the bar as a barrister in 1647.[1]

He rebuilt Groombridge Place with Wren's help in 1662.[2][3] On 21 May 1669, he met with Samuel Pepys.[4] He was an Original Fellow of the Royal Society.

  1. ^ http://www2.royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28Surname%3D%27packer%27%29 [dead link]
  2. ^ England 2010, Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince, Frommer's, 2009, ISBN 978-0-470-47070-1
  3. ^ West Kent and the Weald, John Newman, Yale University Press, 1980, ISBN 978-0-300-09614-9
  4. ^ "Samuel Pepys Diary May 1669 complete". www.pepys.info. Archived from the original on 5 May 2003.