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Pakenham is the eldest son of the 7th Earl of Longford (Frank Longford), a Labour government minister, and the author Elizabeth Longford. [1]He has seven siblings, among them the award-winning historian and biographer Lady Antonia Fraser (who is the widow of playwright Harold Pinter); Lady Rachel Billington, also a writer (and the widow of the director Kevin Billington); Lady Judith Kazantzis ...
Edward Arthur Henry Pakenham, 6th Earl of Longford (29 December 1902 – 5 February 1961) was an Irish peer, politician, and littérateur. Also known as Eamon de Longphort , he was a member of the fifth Seanad Éireann , the upper house of the Irish Parliament, in the 1940s.
Admiral Sir Thomas Pakenham (1757-1836), who married Louisa Staples and had children In 1756 the Longford barony held by Elizabeth's great-great-uncles, Francis Aungier, 1st Earl of Longford , and Ambrose Aungier, 2nd Earl of Longford, of the first creation, was revived when her husband Thomas Pakenham was created Baron Longford in the Peerage ...
Born into the Anglo-Irish Longford family, Lady Mary was the fourth child of Thomas Pakenham, 5th Earl of Longford. [1] After the Earl was killed at the Battle of Gallipoli in World War I in 1915, Lady Mary's mother, the daughter of the 7th Earl of Jersey, was greatly affected by her husband's death, and her sorrow affected her relationship with her six children. [1]
Lady Violet Georgiana Powell (née Pakenham; 13 March 1912 – 12 January 2002) was a British writer and critic. Her husband was the author Anthony Powell . Life and career
In 1739, Pakenham was married to Elizabeth Cuffe (1719–1794), the only daughter and sole heiress of Michael Cuffe, MP.Elizabeth later became suo jure 1st Countess of Longford, and in 1756 Pakenham was created the 1st Baron Longford because his wife was the grand-niece and heiress of Ambrose Aungier, 2nd Earl of Longford, who had died without issue. [8]
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.
Thomas had at least six children by his first marriage, including: Edward Pakenham (died 1721), his eldest son, who married Margaret Bradestan, daughter of John Bradestan, (who married secondly Reverend Ossory Medlicott of Ticehurst, Sussex), and was the father of: Thomas Pakenham, 1st Baron Longford. [1]