Cover image: Peter Stanford's biography of Lord Longford, The Outcast's Outcast (2003)

Francis Aungier Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford, KG, PC (5 December 1905–3 August 2001) was a politician, author, and social reformer. Image File history File links The_Outcast's_Outcast. ... Image File history File links The_Outcast's_Outcast. ... The insignia of a knight of the Order of the Garter. ... Her Majestys Most Honourable Privy Council is a body of advisors to the British Sovereign. ... December 5 is the 339th day (340th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1905 (MCMV) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... August 3 is the 215th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (216th in leap years), with 150 days remaining. ... 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... An author is the person who creates a written work, such as a book, story, article or the like. ...

Biography

The second son of the 5th Earl of Longford, he 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. Thomas Pakenham, 5th Earl of Longford KP, MVO, OC (1864 - August 21, 1915), born in Dublin, Ireland. ... The Kings College of Our Lady of Eton beside Windsor, commonly known as Eton College or just Eton, is an internationally renowned public school (privately funded and independent) for male students, founded in 1440 by Henry VI. It is located in Eton, Berkshire, near Windsor in England, situated north... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford, England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... Elizabeth Pakenham, Countess of Longford, better known as Elizabeth Longford (August 30, 1906 - October 23, 2002) was a British author, born Elizabeth Harman. ...

At the age of 25, Pakenham joined the Conservative Research Department where he developed Education policy for the Conservative Party. His future wife persuaded him to become a socialist [1]. They married on November 3, 1931. In 1940, after a period of religious unease, he converted to Roman Catholicism. His wife was initially dismayed by this, as she had been brought up as an Unitarian and associated Catholicism with reactionary politics; however, she herself converted to Catholicism in 1946 (Mary Craig Longford - A Biographical Portrait (London, 1978) pp59-61) The Conservative Research Department (CRD) is an integral part of the central organisation of the Conservative Party of the United Kingdom. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Socialism refers to a broad array of doctrines or political movements that envisage a socio-economic system in which property and the distribution of wealth are subject to social control. ... November 3 is the 307th day of the year (308th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 58 days remaining. ... Year 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1931 calendar). ...

Pakenham embarked on a political career. 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. He served as a junior minister in the Labour governments of 1945–1951 and as a Cabinet member from 1964 to 1968. Year 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar). ... The Peerage of the United Kingdom comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Act of Union in 1801. ... This article is about the British House of Lords. ... The Labour Party has been, since its founding in the early 20th century, the principal political party of the left in the United Kingdom. ... Year 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar). ... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... In the Politics of the United Kingdom, the Cabinet is a formal body comprised of government officials chosen by the Prime Minister. ... 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ...

Known for his interest in Irish history he wrote a number of books on the topic. Peace B Ordeal: An Account from First-Hand Sources of the Negotiation and Signature of the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, published in 1935, is arguably his best known work which documents the negotiations of the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 between the Irish and British representatives. His account uses primary sources from the time and is widely recognised as the definitive account of this aspect of Irish history. Longford also came to greatly admire Eamon de Valera and was chosen as the co-author of his official biography Eamon de Valera which was published in 1970 and which was co-written by Thomas P. O'Neill. 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Signature page of the Anglo-Irish Treaty The Anglo-Irish Treaty, officially called the Articles of Agreement for a Treaty Between Great Britain and Ireland, was a treaty between the Government of the United Kingdom and representatives of the extra-judicial Irish Republic which concluded the Irish War of Independence. ... Year 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for full calendar). ... Eamon de Valera (born Edward George de Valera, sometimes Gaelicised Éamon de Bhailéara; October 14, 1882 – August 29, 1975), was an Irish politician, best known as a leader of Irelands struggle for independence from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in the early 20th century, and...

In 1961 he inherited from his brother the Earldom of Longford in the Peerage of Ireland. Longford was created a Knight of the Garter in 1971. 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 murderess", Myra Hindley, which led to the tabloid press branding him "Lord Wrongford". He was a founding member of New Bridge an organisation founded in 1956 which aims to help prisoners stay in touch with society and integrate back into it. 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1961 calendar). ... The title Earl of Longford was first bestowed upon Francis Aungier in 1677. ... The Peerage of Ireland the term used for those peers created by British monarchs in their capacity as Lord or King of Ireland. ... A garter is one of the Orders most recognisable insignia. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ... Myra Hindley (23 July 1942–15 November 2002) was an English murderer involved in the Moors murders. ...

[2] His anti-pornography campaigning made him the butt of jokes as "Lord Porn" when he and former prison doctor Christine Temple-Saville set out on a wide-ranging tour of sex industry establishments in the early 1970s to compile a self-funded report.

Under the House of Lords Act 1999 the majority of hereditary peers lost the privilege of a seat and right to vote 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. He was thus created Baron Pakenham of Cowley, of Cowley in the County of Oxfordshire. The House of Lords Act 1999, an Act of Parliament passed by the British Parliament, was a major constitutional enactment as it reformed greatly one of the chambers of Parliament, the House of Lords (see Lords Reform). ... For other uses, see Peerage (disambiguation). ... This article is about the British House of Lords. ... In the United Kingdom, Life Peers are appointed members of the Peerage whose titles may not be inherited (those whose titles are inheritable are known as hereditary peers). ...

He and his wife, who died in October 2002 at the age of 96, had eight children, among them the writers Antonia Fraser, Rachel Billington, and Thomas Pakenham. His wife Elizabeth was a noted writer herself, her most famous book being Victoria R.I. (1964), a biography of Queen Victoria, published in the US as Born to Succeed. She also wrote a two-volume 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. October 2002 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December // Events October 31, 2002 The Russian Health Minister Yuri Shevchenko has now stated that the incapacitating agent used in the storming of the Moscow theatre siege was a fentanyl derivative. ... Lady Antonia Fraser, née Pakenham, (born August 27, 1932) is a British author of history and novels, best known for writing biographies. ... Lady Rachel Billington (born May 11, 1942) is a British author, the daughter of the Earl and Countess of Longford (Frank and Elizabeth Pakenham), who were both eminent writers. ... Thomas Francis Dermot Pakenham, 8th Earl of Longford (born 14 August 1933), known simply as Thomas Pakenham, 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. ... Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS (c. ... Cheltenham is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... The United Kingdom general election in 1950 was the first general election ever after a full term of a Labour government. ...

Titles from birth to death

• The Hon. Francis Pakenham (1905–1945)
• The Rt Hon. The Lord Pakenham (1945–1948)
• The Rt Hon. The Lord Pakenham, PC (1948–1961)
• The Rt Hon. The Earl of Longford, PC (1961–1971)
• The Rt Hon. The Earl of Longford, KG, PC (1971–2001)

Films about Lord Longford

• Longford (2006): Lord Longford's efforts to allow parole of Moors murderer Myra Hindley are dramatized in a Channel 4 film starring Jim Broadbent, Samantha Morton and Andy Serkis

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Books about Lord Longford

• Stanford, Peter (2003). The Outcast's Outcast : A Biography of Lord Longford. Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 512 pp. ISBN 0-7509-3248-1. 

External links

• "Campaigner Lord Longford dies" - BBC News article dated Friday, 3 August 2001
• "Lord Longford: Aristocratic moral crusader" - BBC News obituary dated Friday, 3 August 2001
• "Tributes to humanist peer" - BBC News article dated Friday, 3 August 2001
• Lord Longford - Guardian obituary by Peter Stanford dated Monday, 6 August 2001
• Announcement of his taking the oath for the first time as Lord Pakenham of Cowley, House of Lords minutes of proceedings, 17 November 1999