Oxford.
_General Sir Dennis Pack._--This gallant officer, who, in command of the
light division of the Duke's army, distinguished himself in nearly every
battle of the Peninsula, and finally at Waterloo, was descended from a
younger son of Simon, son of Sir Christopher Pack, Alderman and Lord Mayor
of London. The family was originally from Leicestershire. Sir Christopher,
having advanced money for the reduction of the Irish rebels of 1641,
received a grant of land in the county of Westmeath; and his younger son,
Simon, settled in Ireland about that period. From this Simon descended
Thomas Pack, Esq., of Ballinakill in the Queen's County, grandfather of Sir
Dennis Pack.
As I have in the press a _History of the Cathedral of St. Canice_,
Kilkenny, which latter contains a monument and a fine bust of Sir Dennis
Pack by Chantrey, and of which his father the Rev. Thomas {454} Pack, D.D.,
was dean, any information which will enable me to complete the pedigree
between Simon Pack and the above-named Thomas will be thankfully received.