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He was a Conservative politician and served under the Earl of Derby and Benjamin Disraeli as Under-Secretary of State for War from 1866 to 1868. His son, the fifth Earl, was Lord-Lieutenant of County Longford from 1887 to 1915. Lord Longford was killed in action at Gallipoli in 1915.
Francis Aungier Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford KG, PC (5 December 1905 – 3 August 2001), known to his family as Frank Longford and styled Lord Pakenham from 1945 to 1961, was a British politician and social reformer. A member of the Labour Party, he was one of its longest-serving politicians.
Thomas Francis Dermot Pakenham, 8th Earl of Longford (born 14 August 1933), known simply as Thomas Pakenham, is an Anglo-Irish historian and arborist who has written several prize-winning books on the diverse subjects of African history, Victorian and post-Victorian British history, and trees.
Aug 11, 2001 · The 7th Earl of Longford, born at Pakenham, Co Westmeath in 1905, converted to Catholicism in 1940. When he died he was the oldest member of the House of Lords, and although disappointed when...
- RACHEL DONNELLY
Nov 14, 1976 · LONDON, Nov. 10—Francis Aungier Pakenham, the seventh Earl of Longford, is a slightly rumpled, outgoing author, social reformer and publisher who is known to virtually every newspaper...
Frank Pakenham, the seventh Earl of Longford, was an amiable and eccentric aristocrat, yet a man of serious purpose and achievement.
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Lord Longford, the Labour peer and prisoners' rights campaigner who was ridiculed for championing causes such as the release of Moors murderer Myra Hindley, died last night, aged 95.
