Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford
Francis Aungier Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford, 1st Baron Pakenham, KG PC , known to his family as Frank Longford and as Lord Pakenham from 1945 to 1961, was a British politician and social reformer. A member of the Labour Party, he was one of its longest serving politicians. He held cabinet positions on several occasions between 1947 and 1968. Longford was politically active up until his death in 2001. A member of an old, landed AngloIrish family, he was one of the few aristocratic hereditary peers to have ever served in senior capacity within Labour governments, at the time associated with socialism and leftwing politics and at a time when peers held largely reactionary and antidemocratic political views.
His wife, Elizabeth Pakenham, Countess of Longford, died in October 2002 at the age of 96. She was a noted writer, her most famous book being Victoria R.I. , a biography of Queen Victoria, published in the US as Born to Succeed. She also wrote a twovolume biography of the Duke of Wellington, and a volume of memoirs, The Pebbled Shore. She stood for Parliament as Labour candidate for Cheltenham in the 1950 general election.
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