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Elizabeth Pakenham, Countess of Longford, CBE ( née Harman; 30 August 1906 – 23 October 2002), better known as Elizabeth Longford, was a British historian. She was a member of the Royal Society of Literature and was on the board of trustees of the National Portrait Gallery in London.
Elizabeth Longford, RSL, CBE (1906-2002), historical biographer and family matriarch, is best known for Victoria RI (1964), her scholarly and readable life of Queen Victoria which won the James Tait Black Prize, and for her magisterial Wellington: Years of the Sword (1969) and Wellington: Pillar of State (1972).
Elizabeth, Countess of Longford, was a British historian. She was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was on the board of trustees of the National Portrait Gallery in London.
Elizabeth Longford, who died aged 96, was a creative woman in every sense. Biographer, crusading politician, mother of eight children and a devoted, supportive wife, she inherited her driving...
Jul 1, 2021 · The biography stems from an enormous and wide-ranging groundwork of research worn lightly, and is written in a way that appeals to a general reader as well as an expert. These are exactly the reasons why it won this year ’ s Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography (ELHB), which I chair.
Learn about the life and works of Elizabeth Longford, who wrote acclaimed biographies of Queen Victoria, Wellington, Byron and others. She was also a Labour politician, a mother of four famous writers and a friend to many historians.
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Elizabeth Longford (lông´fərd), 1906–2002, British author. Born Elizabeth Harman, she married (1931) Frank Pakenham, later (1961) earl of Longford. She was educated at Oxford, lectured for the Workers Education Association (1929–35), and was an unsuccessful Labour candidate for Parliament (1935 and 1950).
