Edward Packard (businessman, born 1843)
Sir Edward Packard (28 September 1843 - 11 April 1932) was the founder of Fisons, one of the largest fertiliser manufacturing businesses in the United Kingdom.
Career
Born at Saxmundham in Suffolk and educated at King's College, London and the Royal Agricultural College at Cirencester, Edward Packard joined his father in business as a druggist at Bramford in 1866.[1] In 1872 he patented a new type of highly concentrated superphosphate.[1] He went on to establish Edward Packard & Co. as a leading fertisiser manufacturer.[1]
Packard was influential in attempts to rationalise the fertisiser industry in the 1880s as well as talks to impose higher quality standards.[1]
In 1919 he oversaw the negotiations relating to the merger of his business with James Fison (Thetford) Ltd forming Fisons which grew to become one of the largest fertiliser manufacturers in the United Kingdom.[1]
He was knighted in 1922 and died at his home in Bramford in 1932.[1]