page_title: Hercules Robert Pakenham
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Hercules Robert Pakenham / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Emily Pakenham (c.1795–1875), name before marriage Emily Stapleton, wife of Hercules Robert Pakenham.
context_page_description: Lieutenant-General Sir Hercules Robert Pakenham KCB was a British Army officer who served as aide-de-camp to William IV of the United Kingdom.
context_section_description: When he was a captain, Pakenham was mentioned in Lady Morgan's Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence:
  We have had Captain Pakenham here some days; he has just gone to Lifford, but is to return on Wednesday. He is a very pleasant young man; I wish he had been here when you were, that your recollection of Baron’s Court might have been more lively.
  — Lady Morgan, Marchioness of Abercorn in a letter to Sydney Owenson, 1810
  On 25 December 1817, Pakenham married the Hon. Emily Stapleton (c. 1795–1875), the fourth daughter of Sir Thomas Stapleton, 6th Baronet, 12th Baron le Despencer and the former Elizabeth Eliot. Together, they were the parents of six sons and three daughters, including:
  Edward William Pakenham (1819–1854), an MP who was killed at the Battle of Inkerman in Turkey in 1854.
  Rev. Arthur Hercules Pakenham (1824–1895), who died unmarried.
  Lt.-Gen. Thomas Henry Pakenham (1826–1913), who married Elizabeth Staples Clarke, daughter of William Clarke of New York City, in 1862.
  Robert Maxwell Pakenham (1834–1857), who was killed at the relief of Lucknow in India in 1857.
  Edmund Powerscourt Pakenham (1837–1861), who was killed at Gwalior Fort in India.
  Lt.-Col. Charles Wellesley Pakenham (1840–1873), a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Grenadier Guards who died "from decline" at 33.
  Emily Pakenham (d. 1883), who married Sir Edmund Hayes, 3rd Baronet, son of Sir Samuel Hayes, 2nd Baronet and Elizabeth Lighton (daughter of Sir Thomas Lighton, 1st Baronet), in 1837.
  Elizabeth Catherine Pakenham (d. 1885), who married Thomas Thistlethwayte, son of Thomas Thistlethwayte, in 1850.
  Mary Frances Hester Pakenham, who married Sir William Verner, 2nd Baronet, son of Sir William Verner, 1st Baronet and Harriet Wingfield (a granddaughter of Richard Wingfield, 3rd Viscount Powerscourt) in 1850.
  He died suddenly at his residence, Langford Lodge, County Antrim, on 7 March 1850.
caption: Portrait of his wife Emily, by Henry Collen, after George Hayter, 1825
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