John Pakenham | |
Birth Date: | 1743 |
Death Date: | 1807 |
Death Place: | Lowestoft, Suffolk |
Rank: | Vice-Admiral |
Commands: | Jamaica Station HMS Gibraltar HMS Ajax |
Battles: | French Revolutionary Wars Napoleonic Wars |
Vice-Admiral John Pakenham (1743–1807) was a Royal Navy officer who became Commander-in-Chief of the Jamaica Station.
Promoted to post captain in 1780,[1] Pakenham briefly served as Commander-in-Chief of the Jamaica Station in 1785[2] before going on to command the third-rate HMS Gibraltar in 1796[3] and the third-rate HMS Ajax in July 1798 in the Channel.[4] Promoted to rear-admiral in 1799 and to vice-admiral in 1804,[1] he died at Lowestoft in Suffolk in 1807.[5]