Herbert Pakington, 4th Baron Hampton explained

Honorific Prefix:	The Right Honourable
The Lord Hampton
Birth Name:	Herbert Stuart Pakington
Birth Date:	15 May 1883
Occupation:	Chief Commissioner of The Scout Association
Education:	Wellington College, Berkshire Royal Military College, Sandhurst
Awards:	Boy Scouts of America Silver Buffalo Award (1931)

Herbert Stuart Pakington, 4th Baron Hampton (15 May 1883 – 30 October 1962), served as Chief Commissioner of The Scout Association.^[1]

He was educated at Wellington College, Berkshire, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.^[2] He became the 4th Baron Hampton on the death of his father, Herbert Pakington, 3rd Baron Hampton, in 1906. He was a 1931 recipient of the Silver Buffalo Award.^[3]

Pakington's sister Mary Pakington was an English dramatist.^[4]

Published works

• Book: Scouting Sketches: Being An Apology, a Prologue, and Ten Effusions in Praise of the Game . . . 1925 . C. Arthur Pearson . London.

See also

• Baron Hampton
• Pakington baronets
• Pakington family

Notes and References

1. Book: John S. Wilson . J. S. Wilson . 1959 . Scouting Round the World . First . Blandford Press . B000AQMKTI . 46, 88, 104, 127 .
2. Book: Hampton . . Bloomsbury Publishing plc . 1961–1970 . 0-7136-2008-0.
3. Web site: Silver Buffalo Award Winners 1939–1930 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303191227/http://www.scouting.org:80/scoutsource/Awards/SilverBuffalo/Previouswinners/1939-1930.aspx . dead . 2016-03-03 . Boy Scouts of America.
4. 1953 . Hampton . Burke's Peerage and Baronetage . 100 . 976.