 His son, Sir John, the second baronet (1620–1680), played an active part on the royalist side in the troubles of the Great Rebellion and the Commonwealth, and was taken prisoner at Worcester in 1651; Lady Dorothy, his wife (died 1679), daughter of the lord keeper Thomas Coventry, was famous for her learning, and was long credited with the authorship of "The Whole Duty of Man" (1658), more recently attributed to Richard Allestree.Their grandson, Sir John, the 4th baronet (1671–1727), was a pronounced high Tory and was very prominent in political life; for long he was regarded as the original of Joseph Addison's Sir Roger de Coverley, but the reasons for this supposition are now regarded as inadequate.The baronetcy became extinct with the death of Sir John Pakington, the 8th baronet, in January 1830, but it was revived in 1846 for his maternal nephew and heir, John Somerset Pakington (1799–1880), whose name was originally Russell.