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	Longford, Elizabeth on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		She was educated at Oxford, lectured for the Workers Education Association (1929-35), and was an unsuccessful Labour candidate for Parliament (1935 and 1950).
		Five of her children became writers: the journalist Catherine Longford, the novelist Rachel Billington, the biographer Antonia Fraser, the poet Judith Kazantzis, and the historian Thomas Pakenham.
		Elizabeth Longford, literary matriarch and biographer royal, dies at 96.(News)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/l/longforde1.asp (297 words)

	Education \| Lady Elizabeth Longford
		Elizabeth Longford, who has died aged 96, was matriarch of a large dynasty that almost equalled that of Queen Victoria (one of her biographical subjects) in size.
		Born Elizabeth Harman in Harley Street, the eldest of five children of two doctors, she had the archetypal Edwardian London childhood: nannied and privileged, and punctuated by visits to her mother's uncle in Birmingham, Joseph Chamberlain, the Victorian statesman.
		Elizabeth Longford's life-enhancing vitality expressed itself in her eager attentiveness to anyone she was talking to.
	education.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4530742-110843,00.html (1155 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Lady Longford dies aged 96 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Elizabeth, Lady Longford CBE, was recognised as one of the finest biographers of her age.
		Elizabeth Longford wrote stylish works which, while not pandering to some recent biographers' fad for demolishing their subject, were couched in a respectful manner.
		Elizabeth Longford was in her 50s before she produced her first historical work, about the Jameson Raid, but she made up for lost time with a prolific output.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/uk/611906.stm (546 words)

	[Deathwatch] Elizabeth Longford, historian, 96
		Historian Elizabeth Longford Dies Wed Oct 23, 1:15 PM ET By BARRY RENFREW, Associated Press Writer LONDON - The Countess of Longford, a leading historian who wrote biographies of Queen Victoria and the Duke of Wellington, and raised a family of prominent writers and thinkers, died Wednesday, her family said.
		Her books, published under the name Elizabeth Longford, were praised for combining sound scholarship with a lively writing style that made them accessible to all.
		Born in 1906 as Elizabeth Harman, she met and married Frank Pakenham, a professor, writer and political activist in 1931 at Oxford University.
	slick.org /deathwatch/mailarchive/msg00890.html (506 words)

	The Tablet - The International Catholic Weekly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Elizabeth, Countess of Longford, acclaimed historian and widow of the social reformer Lord Longford, died last week aged 96.
		Like her husband, Lady Longford was active in Labour politics in her earlier years and, also like him, took the decision to become a Catholic.
		ELIZABETH was an idealist and an optimist who held a view of the perfection of Man commonly associated with Rousseau.
	www.thetablet.co.uk /longford.shtml (840 words)

	ancestors - pafg18 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Elizabeth Mrs Joseph COX was born about 1661 in of Hanslope, Buckingham, England.
		Elizabeth COX was christened on 11 Jan 1692.
		Elizabeth Mrs James COX was born about 1731 in of Hanslope, Buckingham, England.
	member.melbpc.org.au /~mall/ancestors/pafg18.htm (718 words)

	thePeerage.com - Person Page 7094 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Thomas Frank Dermot Pakenham, 8th Earl of Longford is the son of Francis Aungier Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford and Elizabeth Harman.
		Patrick Maurice Pakenham is the son of Francis Aungier Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford and Elizabeth Harman.
		Judith Elizabeth Pakenham is the daughter of Francis Aungier Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford and Elizabeth Harman.
	www.thepeerage.com /p7094.htm (760 words)

	CNN.com - Campaigning Lord Longford dies - August 3, 2001
		The 7th Earl of Longford, Francis Aungier Pakenham, served as leader of the house of Lords from 1964 to 1968 and held a number of ministerial posts.
		Longford was also an outspoken critic of the British press and once said it was "trembling on the brink of obscenity." He also campaigned vociferously against pornography.
		Longford was born December 5, 1905, the second son of the 5th Earl of Longford and great-great grandson of Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/08/03/longford.obit (382 words)

	Mahady Millenium Memorial
		NOTE:- The father of Elizabeth was,in all probability,a William Mahady who had died at Ballina,Co.Mayo,as during a visit to "Joyce House",it was found that a William,age 81,had been taken back home to his residence,Ballymahon,by his daughter Elizabeth,to be buried in his Family Grave Site at Ballymahon.
		NOTE:- This was one of the Families whose name was given as being Mahedy for the 2 births at Boherquille but,as has been previously stated,this need not be correct and may actually have been copied down in the same name spelling as the person recording these details.
		The Marriage details showing the spelling as Mahady were copied from the records held at Longford Clinic and has been confirmed by comparison with the initial, and original,registration at Granard Parochial House.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Bluffs/4447/mmm.html (9660 words)

	Longford, Elizabeth Harman Pakenham, Countess of -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Baron Longford, Baron Silchester Of Silchester theatre patron and playwright who is best-remembered as the director of the Gate Theatre in Dublin.
		As the wife of King George VI of the United Kingdom, Elizabeth was queen consort from 1936 to 1952.
		Noted for her humor and easygoing nature, the “Queen Mum,” as she became affectionately known, was one of the most popular and admired members of the...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9391039?tocId=9391039 (862 words)

	Elizabeth Longford
		Elizabeth R. She was the widow of reformer Lord Longford.
		Elizabeth Longford, literary matriarch and biographer royal, dies at 96.(News) (The Independent (London, England))
		Longford, Elizabeth Pakenham (1906- )(Countess of Longford (born Harman) (The Hutchinson Dictionary of the Arts)
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0906435.html (219 words)

	Tasmanian Branch of the Thomas Family and related families - pafg66 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Elizabeth Jane MASON [Parents] was born on 31 Dec 1845.
		Elizabeth Jane FOGGON was born in 1863 in Longford, Tasmania, Australia.
		Ira Samuel MASON was born in 1883 in Longford, Tasmania, Australia.
	www.microbiology.adelaide.edu.au /cthomas/pafg66.htm (437 words)

	BBC Radio 4 - Factual - Desert Island Discs
		Elizabeth Harman was born in London in 1906.
		Elizabeth married Frank Pakenham in 1931 and they had eight children by 1947.
		Elizabeth had access to the Royal archives at Windsor and spent many days in the library there imagining how the Queen would have lived.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/factual/desertislanddiscs_20020623.shtml (559 words)

	RTE News - Biographer Lady Longford dies, 96
		Lady Longford was a renowned historian and biographer.
		Born in 1906 and educated at Francis Holland School, Elizabeth Harman was a high-profile student at Oxford.
		She began her writing career when she was employed to write a column for the Daily Express in 1953 and later for The Sunday Times and the News of the World.
	www.rte.ie /news/2002/1023/longford.html (178 words)

	CNN Specials - Biography
		Indeed in a letter criticising the Duke's appointment as Governor of the Bahamas in 1940 she said that the Duchess was "looked upon as the lowest of the low" and later blamed the pair, who spent their lives in exile, for the King's death.
		Lady Longford says it was also the Queen Mother, demonstrating a vein of steel, who ensured that Wallis Simpson never received the title Her Royal Highness that Edward sought for her.
		Lady Longford says George VI, who had always admired his younger brother, may have given in but she believes the Queen Mother's action was "absolutely right" as it may have lead to the establishment of rival courts.
	edition.cnn.com /SPECIALS/2000/queenmum/story/biography/monarchy.html (900 words)

	Elizabeth Longford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Elizabeth Pakenham, Countess of Longford, better known as Elizabeth Longford (August 30, 1906 - October 23, 2002) was a British author, born Elizabeth Harman.
		On November 3, 1931, she married Francis Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford.
		Her books include Victoria R.I. Eminent Victorian Women (1981), and Royal Throne: The Future of the Monarchy (1993).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elizabeth_Longford (147 words)

	Search Results for "elizabeth"
		...Woodville, Elizabeth, 1437-92, queen consort of Edward IV of England.
		The daughter of a farmer, Joseph Simpson, she went to London in 1772 to seek her fortune on the...
		Born Elizabeth Harman, she married (1931) Frank Pakenham, later earl of Longford.
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=col65&query=elizabeth (187 words)

	Print Article: Writer, socialist, aesthete's moll
		Born Elizabeth Harman in Harley Street, London, the eldest of five children of two doctors, her Edwardian London childhood was nannied and privileged, punctuated by visits to her mother's uncle in Birmingham, Joseph Chamberlain, the Victorian statesman.
		She became a government wife, since Pakenham (Lord Longford after 1961) held various posts in the Attlee and Wilson cabinets.
		Longford - of whom his wife said "Frank never stops talking" - died last year, aged 95.
	www.smh.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2002/10/29/1035683412834.html (1065 words)

	Pakenham Genealogy Pt 1
		Knight of the Shire for Longford 11/1765 Privy Councilor 1/1777.
		Elected Knight of the shire for the county of Longford 7/1768.
		Elizabeth Fitzgerald KO11/344 Continued on Pakenham 2 From Wendy Reid Jan 2003: My Hamilton descent is from the the 1st Duke of Hamilton.
	www.antonymaitland.com /pakham01.htm (6292 words)

	Robert James Lees - Further Research
		Elizabeth Longford in her biography of Queen Victoria, lists a number of reasons why she doubts the authenticity of the story that Robert James Lees served as Queen Victoria’s medium.
		The copy seen by Lady Longford was one of a number of copies similarly bound, four of which he subsequently sent to members of the Royal household.
		Elizabeth Longford’s biography is rightly acknowledged as a major reference work for those studying the life of Queen Victoria.
	www.rjlees.co.uk /further_research.htm (1458 words)

	BBC News \| UK POLITICS \| Lord Longford: Aristocratic moral crusader
		Lord Longford's campaign to secure the release of celebrated criminals, in particular the Moors murderer Myra Hindley, caused constant derision in the public and the press.
		Lord Longford was an active social worker and was chairman of the National Society for Physically Handicapped Children, of Mencap, and of the National Youth Employment Council.
		Lord Longford, who succeeded his brother, the Sixth Earl, in 1961, had several books published including a study of the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, works about crime and punishment, an official biography of Pope John Paul II and an autobiography.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/430115.stm (611 words)

	Charleton Wills Kings Inn Trinity of Longford
		Robert Moffett of Longford, married Elizabeth Mulledy in the Parish of Templemichael on the 28th October 1832.
		Longford, and Jenina Bernard; over 16; school term 1799; educated Dublin; affidavit by father; bond term 1804 (attorney exchequer 1806) from Exchequer Rolls.
		of Parish Rathcline and Cashell on Aug. 7 1777 and afterward incumbent of Forgney Parish, Co. Longford, and chaplain of Lady Ross.
	personal.nbnet.nb.ca /tmoffatt/wills.html (1826 words)

	Farrell Gravestones Worldwide
		Patrick and Elizabeth, Longford, d: --, 1868; children: Mary Elizabeth 1863, Joseph 1864, Teresa and Francis died young.
		Thomas and Mary (nee Smyth), late of Ferefad d: 1861 and 1861; sons: Patrick 1856 and Rodger of Longford.
		Torby Townland, Tasheenod Civil Parish, Longford and Elizabeth Orr of Longford, Ireland, who were married April 9, 1815 in Tasheenod (Tashinod) Parish, co. Longford, Ireland.
	ourworld.cs.com /TheFarrellClan/gravestones.htm (2572 words)

	RTE.ie Entertainment - Author Elizabeth Longford dies, 96
		The Countess of Longford, better known as the author Elizabeth Longford, has died at her home in Sussex at the age of 96.
		She will be best remembered as the biographer of historical figures including Queen Victoria and Wellington.
		Her husband was the penal reformer Lord Longford, who died last year.
	www.rte.ie /arts/2002/1023/longforde.html (74 words)

	ALL ABOUT ROMANCE (novels) reviews The Last Leprechaun by June Calvin
		Elizabeth's father is a dissolute gambler and drinker and a very bitter man. He is also the current holder of entailed estate lands that will go to John upon his death.
		This horrifies Elizabeth, who loves the family woodlands and has devoted her time to studying the many plants and creatures who live there.
		Eizabeth is also upset about her father's plan since a childhood encounter convinced her that the very last of all the leprechauns lives in that forest.
	www.likesbooks.com /cgi-bin/bookReview.pl?BookReviewId=965 (614 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Lady Longford dies aged 96
		Countess Longford, the widow of renowned social reformer Lord Longford, has died at the age of 96.
		While she was there, Lady Longford also met her future husband, Frank Pakenham.
		Lady Longford once mused, "I have to admit that when we reached our diamond wedding and then both entered our nineties, our friends began to treat our marriage somewhat as a union of dinosaurs."
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/611906.stm (553 words)

	Telegraph \| Opinion \| At last, Kipling is saved from the ravages of political correctness
		The Elizabeth Longford Historical Biography prize has been awarded to David Gilmour's superbly revisionist work The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling, which triumphantly succeeds in rescuing Kipling's reputation as a significant political thinker.
		The prize was set up in memory of Elizabeth Longford, who died last year aged 96 and whose many biographical subjects included the definitive works on Queen Victoria and the Duke of Wellington.
		The financier Peter Soros and his wife, Flora, Lady Longford's granddaughter and the biographer of Emma Hamilton and Queen Caroline, have very generously endowed the annual prize.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2003/05/13/do1301.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2003/05/13/ixopinion.html (943 words)

	The Independent (London, England): Elizabeth Longford, literary matriarch and biographer royal, dies at 96.(News)@ ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Independent (London, England): Elizabeth Longford, literary matriarch and biographer royal, dies at 96.(News)@ HighBeam Research
		ELIZABETH LONGFORD, the renowned historian who was also one of the finest British biographers of the last century, died yesterday aged 96.
		Her daughter, Lady Antonia Fraser, said the Countess of Longford, widow of the social reformer Lord Longford, died peacefully at her home in East Sussex.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:93280134&refid=ip_almanac_hf (197 words)

	Queen Elizabeth II
		They were in Kenya (en route for a tour of Australia and New Zealand) when the king died (Feb. 6, 1952) and Elizabeth succeeded to the throne.
		In 1992 Elizabeth, the wealthiest woman in England, agreed to pay income tax for the first time.
		Although she was widely criticized for her seeming insensitivity in the days following Princess Diana's death (1997), she had regained the public's esteem by the time of her golden jubilee, less than five years later.
	www.factmonster.com /birthday?date=4-21-2005 (322 words)

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		Elizabeth Loftus Katherine Ketcham - The Myth of Repressed Memory: False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse - 0312141238
		Elizabeth Longford - Wellington the Years of the Sword - 1125863234
		Elizabeth Longford - Queen Victoria Born To Succeed - 1299352480
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	Thomas Pakenham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For further people of the same name, see Earl of Longford.
		Thomas Francis Dermot Pakenham, 8th Earl of Longford (born August 14, 1933) is an Anglo-Irish historian and arborist who has authored several prize winning books on the diverse subjects of Victorian and post-Victorian British history and trees.
		He is the son of Frank Pakenham, a Labour minister and human rights campaigner, and Elizabeth Longford; his sister, Antonia Fraser, is also a writer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Pakenham (299 words)

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