Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford Francis Aungier Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford, 1st Baron Pakenham, (5 December 1905 – 3 August 2001), known to his family as Frank Longford and styled 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 Anglo-Irish family, he was one of the few aristocratic hereditary peers to have ever
Francis Aungier, 1st Baron Aungier of Longford of the White Friars Monastery where he resided in Dublin: there, in 1677, Aungier Street was dedicated in honour of his family. Aungier was married three times, and had several children through his marriages. He married first Douglas Fitzgerald, sister of the 14th Earl of Kildare, and had five children: He married secondly Anne Barne, daughter of Sir George Barne III, and had two children: He married thirdly Margaret Cave, daughter of Sir Thomas Cave (died 1613) of Stanford Hall and Eleanor St. John. They had no issue. Francis Aungier, 1st Baron Aungier of Longford Francis Aungier, 1st Baron Aungier