Edward Packard (businessman, born 1819)
Edward Packard, senior (5 January 1819 Hasketon–1899), was an English chemist and businessperson who founded and developed a major artificial fertilizer industry near Ipswich, Suffolk in the mid-nineteenth century, and became a wealthy and prominent figure in the life of the Borough. His son, Sir Edward Packard, junior (28 September 1843 – 11 April 1932) developed Packard and James Fison (Thetford) Limited ('Fisons') into one of the largest fertiliser manufacturing businesses in the United Kingdom. Early Years Edward Packard senior, born in Thorpe Hall, Hasketon near Woodbridge, Suffolk in 1819, the son of John Harrison Packard and his wife Elizabeth (née Harper) daughter of William Harper, of Falkenham Hall, Suffolk. After attending Woodbridge Grammar School he was articled to Francis Cupiss (1798 - 1888). Cupiss qualified as a veterinary surgeon in 1822, practiced as a chemist, and established a letterpress printing business in Diss in 1830. Packard studied pharmaceutical chemistry with Cupiss, before setting up his artificial manure company in Saxmundham in 1841. He soon installed a manager and went to London to study under John Collis Nesbit who had recently started a natural sciences course at his fathers school in Kennington. Nesbit was developing the school into an agricultural