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| Birth | 1743 | |
| Death | 1807Lowestoft (aged 64 years) |
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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, Pakenham briefly served as Commander-in-Chief of the Jamaica Station in 1785 before going on to command the third-rate HMS Gibraltar in 1796 and the third-rate HMS Ajax in July 1798 in the Channel. Promoted to rear-admiral in 1799 and to vice-admiral in 1804, he died at Lowestoft in Suffolk in 1807.