Background
Packe was born at Saint Albans, Hertfordshire, on 6 March 1686. He was probably the son of Christopher Packe the chemistry
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Christopher Packe
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University of Cambridge.
Career
His 1743 work A New Philosophico-chorographical Chart of East Kent was the first geological map of Southern England. Packe was admitted to Merchant Taylors" School on 11 September 1695. He was created Doctor of Medicine at Cambridge in 1717, and was admitted a candidate of the College of Physicians on 25 June 1723.
At the request of Robert Romney, the then vicar, he gave an organ to the Church of Street Peter, Saint Albans, the organ being inaugurated on 16 January 1726.
About 1726 Packe settled at Canterbury. He practiced as a physician, with a good reputation, for nearly a quarter of a century.
He died on 15 November 1749, and was buried in Saint Mary Magdalene, Canterbury. Packe married Mary Randolph, of the Precincts, Canterbury, on 30 July 1726 at Canterbury Cathedral.
Boerhaave"s Aphorisms. of Phthisis Pulmonalis in 1754. He died on 21 October 1800, aged 72, and was buried by the side of his father.
Membership
Their son Christopher graduated Bachelor of Medicine in 1751 as a member of Peterhouse, Cambridge, practised as a physician at Canterbury, and published An Explanation of.
