He was the son of
Sir John Pakington, 1st Baronet and his wife Frances Ferrers, the daughter of Sir John Ferrers of Tamworth. His father and grandfather died when he was very young and he became the ward of
Thomas Coventry, later Lord Coventry. He succeeded his father to the baronetcy in 1624 and his grandfather to his Westwood estate in 1625. In April 1640, Pakington was elected
Member of Parliament for
Worcestershire in the
Short Parliament. He was elected MP for
Aylesbury for the
Long Parliament in November 1640. He was disabled from sitting on 20 August 1642 for executing a commission of array for
Charles I. He served the King during the
English Civil War but was captured and imprisoned in the
Tower of London. He appeared at the muster before the
Battle of Worcester, and was in consequence tried for treason, but no one would testify against him, probably because he had been captured by the Scots. He was nevertheless fined again. After the
Restoration Pakington was again a
Justice of the Peace. In 1661, he was re-elected MP for Worcestershire in the
Cavalier Parliament and sat until 1679. He was instrumental in opposing an alleged plot by
Andrew Yarranton and other Presbyterians, though they claimed (apparently successfully) that the plot was fabricated. Pakington died at the age of 58. ==Family==