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
Hercules Robert Pakenham One of his sons, Edward, was killed at Inkerman in 1854 and another, Robert, at the relief of Lucknow in 1857. He died suddenly at his residence, Langford Lodge, County Antrim, on 7 March 1850. The "Sir Hercules Pakenham Scholarship" and "Emily Lady Pakenham Scholarship" were founded in 1876 by Rev. Arthur Hercules Pakenham in their memory for students of Queen's College, Belfast. One of the 42 stalls in the Domus Dei in Portsmouth was dedicated to him. Hercules Robert Pakenham Lieutenant-General Sir Hercules Robert Pakenham (29 September 1781 – 7 March 1850) was a British Army officer who served