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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 ...
They had several children. Their third son, the Honourable Thomas Alexander Pakenham, was a rear-admiral in the Royal Navy and the father of Admiral Sir William Pakenham. Their seventh and youngest son, the Honourable Sir Francis Pakenham, was a diplomat and notably served as Ambassador to Sweden.
Lady Violet was the third daughter of Thomas Pakenham, 5th Earl of Longford, and the former Lady Mary Child-Villiers, daughter of Victor Child-Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey. She was educated at St Margaret's School, Bushey. [1]
Edward Pakenham was born at 14, Curzon Street in London on 29 December 1902, [2] the elder son of Thomas Pakenham, 5th Earl of Longford, and his wife Mary, Countess of Longford, née Child-Villiers.
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]
Lord William was born on 2 November 1854, a younger son of William Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Exeter (1825–1895) and Lady Georgina Sophia Pakenham (died 1909), daughter of Thomas Pakenham, 2nd Earl of Longford (1774–1835).
Thomas Frank Dermot Pakenham, 8th Earl of Longford (b. 14 August 1933), historian; married with issue (four children) The Hon. Patrick Maurice Pakenham (17 April 1937 – 8 June 2005 [44]), barrister; married Mary Plummer, three children
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.