Elizabeth Pakenham, Countess of Longford undergraduate at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. "Able, articulate and beautiful", in the words of "The New York Times", she was "the Zuleika Dobson of her day, with undergraduates and even dons tumbling over one another to fall in love with her". A few years after her graduation, on 3 November 1931, she married Frank Pakenham, later 7th Earl of Longford, who died in August 2001. Her obituary by the BBC said the marriage was "famously harmonious." "The New York Times", in its review of "The Pebbled Shore", called Lady Longford "easily the best writer in what is predominantly a literary
W. S. Pakenham-Walsh S. Pakenham-Walsh died on 26 April 1960. W. S. Pakenham-Walsh William Sandford Pakenham-Walsh (; Pinyin: "Wàn Báwén"; Foochow Romanized: "Uâng Bĕk-ùng"; 1868 – April 26, 1960) was a Christian clergyman, educationalist and writer, most famous for his work "Tudor Story". W. S. Pakenham-Walsh was born in 1868 into a distinguished Irish clerical family. His middle name, Sandford, was given to him by his father who used to work as curate and later Rector of Sandford Parish in Dublin. In 1897, W. S. Pakenham-Walsh went to China under the auspices of CMS to work with the Dublin University Fukien Mission as