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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.
The book was written by historian and arborist Thomas Pakenham and published in 1991, by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in the United Kingdom and Random House in the United States. [ 1 ] The book juxtaposes the motives of missionary David Livingstone , King Leopold II , and other leading figures in the southern African land-grab of the late 19th and ...
His son Sir Thomas Pakenham, grandfather of the first Baron, sat as Member of Parliament for Augher. Sir Thomas's son Edward Pakenham, father of the first Baron, represented County Westmeath in the Irish Parliament. The Honourable Sir Thomas Pakenham, third son of the first Baron and the Countess of Longford, was an admiral in the Royal Navy.
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Thomas Pakenham may refer to: Thomas Pakenham (historian) (born 1933), 8th Earl of Longford, Anglo-Irish historian and arborist; Thomas Pakenham, 1st Baron Longford (1713–1766), Irish peer and politician; Thomas Pakenham (Augher MP) (1649–1703), grandfather of the preceding; Thomas Pakenham (Royal Navy officer) (1757–1836), British naval ...
Thomas Pakenham provides a brief sketch of Saga Krestos' European life in his The Mountains of Rasselas, and the book ends with a description of Pakenham's visit to Saga Krestos' grave in Rueil-Malmaison. [2] However, O. G. S. Crawford has cast doubts on this story. In an article that discusses the surviving sources for the story of Saga ...
Lady Mary Julia Child Villiers (1877–1933), married Thomas Pakenham, 5th Earl of Longford, and had issue. Lady Beatrice Child Villiers (1880–1970), married Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, and had issue. Hon. Arthur George Child Villiers (1883–1969) [1]
Kazantzis was born in Oxford and grew up in East Sussex, the fourth child and second daughter of the eight children born to Lord and Lady Longford, and sister of novelist Rachel Billington and historians Dame Antonia Fraser and Thomas Pakenham. She attended St Leonards-Mayfield School, and then More House School in Kensington. She wrote her ...