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	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford
		Francis Aungier Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford (December 5, 1905 - August 3, 2001), better known to the British press simply as Lord Longford, or as the author Frank Pakenham, was a politician, author, and social reformer.
		He was the second son of the 5th Earl of Longford, and was educated at Eton, and at the University of Oxford, where he met his future wife, Elizabeth Harman, and graduated with a First in Modern Greats.
		Lord Longford was one of a number of long-standing active memebers of the house who were made life peers allowing them retain their seats.
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	7th Earl of Longford Frank Pakenham Biography
		Sir Francis Aungier Pakenham KG, PC 7th Earl of Longford Baron Longford, Baron Silchester, and 1st Baron Pakenham,(December 5, 1905 - August 3, 2001), better known to the British press simply as Lord Longford, or as the author Frank Pakenham, was a politician, author, and social reformer.
		At the age of 25, Pakenham joined the Conservative Party, but was soon convinced to become a socialist, partly by his future wife, whom he married on November 3, 1931.
		In 1945 he was created Baron Pakenham in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, and in 1961 he inherited from his brother the Irish titles of Earl of Longford and Baron Longford and the UK title of Baron Silchester.
	www.biographybase.com /biography/Pakenham_Frank_7th_Earl_of_Longford.html (346 words)

	Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Francis Aungier "Frank" Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford, KG, PC (December 5, 1905 - August 3, 2001) was a politician, author, and social reformer.
		At the age of 25, Pakenham joined the Conservative Research Department where he developed Education policy for the Conservative Party, but was soon convinced to become a socialist, partly by his future wife, whom he married on November 3, 1931.
		In 1945 he was created Baron Pakenham in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, and in 1961 he inherited from his brother the Irish titles of Earl of Longford and Baron Longford and the UK title of Baron Silchester.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Frank_Pakenham (430 words)

	Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of ...
		Francis Aungier Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford (December 5, 1905 - August 3, 2001), better known to the British press simply as Lord Longford, or as the author Frank Pakenham, was a politician, author, and social reformer.
		He was the second son of the 5th Earl of Longford, and was educated at Eton, and at the University of Oxford, where he met his future wife, Elizabeth Harman, and graduated with a First in Modern Greats.
		Lord Longford was one of a number of long-standing active memebers of the house who were made life peers allowing them retain their seats.
	encyclopedian.com /fr/Frank-Pakenham.html (310 words)

	Patrick Pakenham \| Obituaries \| News \| Telegraph
		Patrick (always known as Paddy) Maurice Pakenham was born on April 17 1937, the third of the eight children of Francis (Frank) Pakenham and his wife Elizabeth (later the Earl and Countess of Longford).
		Frank Longford was variously an Oxford don, a Labour minister, a City banker, and an outspoken campaigner for penal reform.
		Pakenham was treated to a homily on ethics and the standards of behaviour to which he was expected to adhere.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&targetRule=10&xml=/news/2005/06/22/db2202.xml (884 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford
		Francis Aungier Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford, KG, PC (5 December 1905–3 August 2001) was a politician, author, and social reformer.
		In 1945 he was created Baron Pakenham, of Cowley in the City of Oxford, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, and took his seat in the House of Lords.
		Lord Longford, as the recipient of a hereditary peerage of first creation (from his creation as Baron Pakenham), was, along with many others in the same situation, made a life peer so that he could retain his seat in the Lords.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Frank_Pakenham,_7th_Earl_of_Longford (846 words)

	Elizabeth Longford: 'aesthetes' moll' and royal biographer.(Biography) - Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Frank Pakenham, who was still a commoner, was anyway created a peer by Attlee, beginning his career in government, rising to Cabinet rank under Wilson in the sixties.
		Pakenham worked for a time as a tutor for the Workers' Educational Association in the Potteries; Elizabeth worked alongside him having already converted him to socialism.
		In the early years of their marriage, Frank Pakenham had attempted to make a career in journalism, ruefully reflecting in his memoir, Avowed Intent, that his most notable piece had been one on women's fashion, sketched out for him by a sympathetic editor.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-102747655.html (1803 words)

	Elizabeth Countess of Longford \| Obituaries \| News \| Telegraph
		Frank Pakenham failed to win Oxford for Labour in the 1945 General Election - during which Elizabeth's father died, leaving what she described as "a great deal more money than any of us had thought likely".
		In 1951, Pakenham was First Lord of the Admiralty, a period of office almost immediately extinguished by the general election of 1951.
		Elizabeth Pakenham (or Longford, as she became with her husband's succession as 7th Earl in 1961) was launched on her literary career.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/10/24/db2401.xml&page=5 (400 words)

	Longford: Radical conservative, RIP - Interim, August 2001
		Frank decided that Hindley had been cajoled by her lover into these devilish crimes and that after decades in prison, she should be released.
		There was something abundantly charming about seeing Frank, in crumpled suit and old school tie, chatting with steel-hard young men about their former lives as soccer hooligans.
		Frank was at the forefronts of the anti-racist movement and the pro-life community.
	www.theinterim.com /2001/aug/coren.html (695 words)

	Rip Van Winkle Emerges - New York Times
		When he was 22 years old, Thomas Pakenham climbed Wenhi, the legendary Ethiopian mountain to which deposed princes were exiled.
		On that first journey, the young explorer discovered a medieval church and was bitten by what he calls "the African bug." In the intervening 36 years he hasn't been able to shake it.
		Pakenham is already pondering his next contribution to the family corpus: "I'd like to write a novel -- a slim volume -- with part of it set in Africa."
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	A LIFE OF HER OWN - New York Times
		Elizabeth Longford, the distinguished biographer of both Queen Victoria and the Duke of Wellington, is the matriarch of the clan.
		Frank Pakenham and Elizabeth Harman were, however, eventually married at St. Margaret's, Westminister, on Nov. 3, 1931.
		The Pakenhams were several cuts above the Harmans socially, and, on top of that, while Frank worked loyally away for the Conservative Party, Elizabeth insisted not only on remaining an active socialist but also actually became a Labor candidate in the 1935 parliamentary election.
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	Thomas Pakenham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		After graduating from Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1955 Thomas Pakenham travelled to Ethiopia, a trip which is described in his first book The Mountains of Rasselas.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Pakenham (299 words)

	Pakenham Genealogy Pt 1
		Mary Pakenham, born 17/1/1771, died 1789 (PT) 1/3: Catherine Sarah Dorothea Pakenham (PPDV-5T) (re PRONI and AF), Born: Abt 1772, Dublin (re AF and IGI).
		Pakenham's general advance on 28 December was brought to a halt some 750 yards in front of this position; and there, under bombardment, rain and sleet lay the troops.
		William Pakenham, RN who was lost in the Saldanha frigate in 1811; and of the last Duchess of Wellington.
	www.antonymaitland.com /pakham01.htm (6292 words)

	thePeerage.com - Lady Catherine Rose Pakenham and others
		She was the daughter of Sir Francis Aungier Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford and Elizabeth Harman.
		She married Thomas Frank Dermot Pakenham, 8th Earl of Longford, son of Sir Francis Aungier Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford and Elizabeth Harman, on 23 July 1964.
		She is the daughter of Thomas Frank Dermot Pakenham, 8th Earl of Longford and Valerie Susan McNair Scott.
	www.thepeerage.com /p7095.htm (730 words)

	Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Over the years he gained a reputation as an eccentric, becoming known for his efforts to rehabilitate offenders and campaigning for the release from prison of the "Moors murderer", (Click link for more info and facts about Myra Hindley) Myra Hindley.
		Lord Longford, as the recipient of a hereditary peerage of first creation (from his creation as Baron Pakenham), was, along with many others in the same situation, made a (A British peer whose title lapses at death) life peer so that he could retain his seat in the Lords.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/F/Fr/Frank_Pakenham,_7th_Earl_of_Longford.htm (304 words)

	Longford, Elizabeth. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		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).
		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.
	www.bartleby.com /65/lo/LongfordE.html (162 words)

	Education \| Lady Elizabeth Longford
		She became a government wife, since Frank Pakenham (Lord Longford after 1961) held various posts in the Attlee and Wilson cabinets.
		At Frank's funeral wake she sat like Queen Victoria in a lacy cap, and told amusing stories of his boyhood.
		She is survived by four sons and three daughters, including the writers Thomas Pakenham, Antonia Fraser, Rachel Billington and Judith Kazantzis, 26 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
	education.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4530742-110843,00.html (1155 words)

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		Read about Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford at WorldVillage Encyclopedia.
		Eton and at the University of Oxford, where he met his future wife, Elizabeth Harman, and graduated with a First in Modern Greats.
		In 1945 he was created Baron Pakenham in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, and in 1961 he inherited from his brother the
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Frank_Pakenham (396 words)

	Education \| The history woman
		Antonia Pakenham - pronounced Packenham not Paikenham - was born in London in 1932, the first of eight children of Frank Pakenham, later Lord Longford, and Elizabeth Harman, who as Elizabeth Longford went on to write several acclaimed historical biographies herself.
		Two of Antonia's siblings, Rachel Billington and Thomas Pakenham, are also distinguished authors, Anthony and Lady Violet Powell were her aunt and uncle and three of Antonia's own daughters are published writers.
		It was after her father was defeated by Quintin Hogg for the Oxford seat in 1945 that he was sent to the House of Lords by Clement Attlee and Antonia was accorded the courtesy title of Lady.
	education.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4487455-110864,00.html (3727 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Special Reports \| Obituary: Lord Longford
		Though conducted simultaneously, the two crusades that made Frank Longford, who has died aged 95, a household name in Britain were an odd combination.
		In the 1945 Labour land slide, Longford - then Frank Pakenham - stood for Oxford, but was defeated by Quintin Hogg, later Lord Hailsham.
		Attlee was persuaded to elevate him to the peerage, and bring to Labour's sparsely populated Lords benches a youthful thinker who had been Sir William Beveridge's right-hand man on his landmark welfare state report.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /politicsobituaries/story/0,1441,563425,00.html (2262 words)

	BBC Radio 4 - Factual - Desert Island Discs
		Joining the social set that included John Betjemen, Evelyn Waugh and Maurice Bowra, she became one of the first female Isis idols and was proposed to numerous times before she accepted Frank Pakenham, who was later to succeed to the Longford earldom.
		She became interested in politics and a Labour supporter and was to become a Labour party candidate twice, in 1935 and 1950, but never elected to parliament.
		Elizabeth married Frank Pakenham in 1931 and they had eight children by 1947.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/factual/desertislanddiscs_20020623.shtml (559 words)

	Writer, socialist, aesthete's moll - smh.com.au
		But one night at the end of a New College ball her gaze alighted on the slumbering form of Frank Pakenham - "Like a Greek god with brown curls," she said.
		She became a government wife, since Pakenham (Lord Longford after 1961) held various posts in the Attlee and Wilson cabinets.
		She is survived by four sons and three daughters - including the writers Thomas Pakenham, Antonia Fraser, Rachel Billington and Judith Kazantzis - 26 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/10/29/1035683412834.html (1145 words)

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