Thomas Pakenham, 2nd Earl of Longford Thomas Pakenham, 2nd Earl of Longford Thomas Pakenham, 2nd Earl of Longford, (14 May 1774 – 28 May 1835), known as The Lord Longford between 1792 and 1794, was an Anglo-Irish peer. Pakenham was the eldest son of Edward Pakenham, 2nd Baron Longford, by Catherine Rowley, daughter of Hercules Rowley. His sister, the Honourable Catherine Pakenham, was the wife of the Duke of Wellington. One of his younger brothers was the Honourable Sir Edward Pakenham, a British Army officer who served under Wellington in the Peninsular War. A younger brother was Sir Hercules Robert Pakenham CB, KCB, a lieutenant-general of
Prince Francis Joseph of Braganza brother-in-law Prince Charles Louis of Thurn und Taxis. Francis Joseph was later implicated in another homosexual scandal in Austria. In November 1909 Francis Joseph had £325,000 swindled from him after purchasing what he believed to be valuable emeralds and shares in an English mining company, by an impostor passing himself of as Frederick Vanderbilt of the famous Vanderbilt family. The impostor, whose real name was William Lackerstein Joachim, first met Francis Joseph in Paris in April 1909 and a month later Joachim traveled to Vienna where he threw a dinner for Francis Joseph. Joachim managed to convince Francis Joseph of