Packer, Sir Charles, chief justice of Barbados, vice-chancellor and judge of vice-admiralty court since 1874, solicitor-general Barbados 1847-74, escheator-general 1859, member of general assembly 1846-67, speaker 1861-7, member of Legislative Council 1868-76, knighted 29 Oct., 1879, B.A., Trin. Coll., Camb., 1839, a student of the Inner Temple 23 Nov., 1837 (then aged 21), called to the bar 29 Jan., 1841 (3rd son of John Culling Packer, Esq., of Barbados); born , 1816; married , 1841, Amelia Rebecca, eldest dau. of J. T. Ellis, Esq., of Barbados (see Foster's Baronetage).
- St. John's, Barbados.