Thomas Pakenham (historian)


The Earl of Longford
Earl of Longford
Tenure3 August 2001 – present
PredecessorFrank Longford
BornThomas Francis Dermot Pakenham
(1933-08-14) 14 August 1933 (age 91)
Spouse(s)
Valerie Susan Scott
(after 1964)
Issue4
ParentsThe 7th Earl of Longford
Elizabeth Harman

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 written several prize-winning books on the diverse subjects of African history, Victorian and post-Victorian British history, and trees.

Background

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, a poet; and The Hon. Kevin Pakenham,[2] who worked in the City of London. He is also a cousin of the former Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman.

Thomas Pakenham does not use his title of Earl of Longford and, before succeeding his father, did not use his courtesy title. However, he has not disclaimed his British titles of Baron Silchester and Baron Pakenham under the Peerage Act 1963, and his Irish earldom cannot be disclaimed, as it is not covered by the Act.

Following the House of Lords Act 1999, he is not entitled, as a hereditary peer, to automatically sit in the House of Lords. His father was created a life peer in addition to his hereditary titles in order to be able to retain his seat in the upper house.

Family

In 1964, Pakenham married Valerie Susan McNair Scott, daughter of Major Ronald Guthrie McNair Scott and the Hon. Mary Cecilia Berry, daughter of the 1st Viscount Camrose. They have four children:[1]

  • Lady Anna Maria Pakenham, b. 26 July 1965
  • Lady Eliza Pakenham, b. 3 November 1966
  • Edward Melchior Pakenham, Lord Silchester, b. 6 January 1970. Lord Silchester is usually known as Ned Silchester or Ned Pakenham
  • The Hon. Frederick Augustus Pakenham, b. 27 November 1971

Valerie Pakenham, Countess of Longford, died on 22 January 2023 at the age of 83.[3]

Biography

Pakenham was educated at Belvedere College, a private Jesuit school in Dublin, and Magdalen College, Oxford. After graduating in 1955, he travelled around Ethiopia, a journey that he described in his first book, The Mountains of Rasselas (1959). After returning to Britain, he worked on the editorial staff of the Times Educational Supplement, and later for The Sunday Telegraph and The Observer. He now divides his time between London and County Westmeath, Ireland, where he is the Chairman of the Irish Tree Society and honorary custodian of Tullynally Castle.

Pakenham owned Longford Greyhound Stadium until 1966, when he sold it to Longford Sports Ltd.[4]

Bibliography

  • The Mountains of Rasselas: An Ethiopian Adventure, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1959. (reprinted with updated photographs, 1998)
  • The Year of Liberty: The History of the Great Irish Rebellion of 1798, Hodder & Stoughton, 1969.
  • Pakenham, Thomas (1979). The Boer War. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 029777395X. OCLC 905293995.
  • The Scramble for Africa, 1876-1912, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1991. (winner of the WH Smith Literary Award and the Alan Paton Award)
  • Meetings with Remarkable Trees, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1996. (made into a radio series and a television series under the same title)
  • Remarkable Trees of the World, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002.
  • The Remarkable Baobab, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004.
  • The Company of Trees: A Year in a Lifetime's Quest, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2015.

References

  1. ^ a b Burke's Peerage, vol. 2 (2003), p. 2395.
  2. ^ "Kevin Pakenham | Pakenham Partners Limited". pakenhampartners.com. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
  3. ^ Longford Leader Reporter (23 January 2023). "Deaths in Longford - Monday, January 23, 2023". longfordleader.ie. Iconic Media.. Obituary for Valerie Pakenham (née McNair Scott), Tullynally, Castlepollard, Co Westmeath.
  4. ^ "Monthly Greyhound Star (Remember When 1966) March edition". Greyhound Star.
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by Earl of Longford
2001–
Incumbent
Heir:
Edward Pakenham, Lord Silchester

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