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Elizabeth Pakenham, Countess of Longford, CBE ( née Harman; 30 August 1906 – 23 October 2002), better known as Elizabeth Longford, was a British historian. She was a member of the Royal Society of Literature and was on the board of trustees of the National Portrait Gallery in London.
Elizabeth Pakenham, 1st Countess of Longford (26 July 1719 (baptised) – 27 January 1794), formerly Elizabeth Cuffe, was an Irish noblewoman. She was the wife of Thomas Pakenham, 1st Baron Longford, the mother of Edward Michael Pakenham, 2nd Baron Longford, and the grandmother of Thomas Pakenham, 2nd Earl of Longford.
Longford published over twenty works all together, some under the name Elizabeth Pakenham and one as the Countess of Longford, with some of the most notable books being Jameson's Raid (1960), and the autobiography The Pebbled Shore: The Memoirs of Elizabeth Longford (1986).
Matriarch of a notable leftish literary dynasty, biographer and historian Elizabeth Harman – Countess of Longford after her husband Frank Pakenham succeeded to his brother’s earldom in 1965 – was born in 1906, one of the outstanding personalities of her time.
Elizabeth Longford lived a golden life which she richly deserved, as a writer and founder of a writing dynasty (after Antonia and Thomas came Judith Kazantzis, Rachel Billington and Kevin...
Elizabeth (née Harman), Countess of Longford. (1906-2002), Historian and writer; wife of 7th Earl of Longford. Sitter in 19 portraits. Elizabeth Longford, the biographer and historian, was considered as one of the most brilliant women of her generation, producing authoritative biographies of Joseph 'Radical Joe' Chamberlain, the Duke of ...
24 de oct. de 2002 · Elizabeth Countess of Longford, who died yesterday aged 96, became the matriarch of a family of writers; her own biographies, however, were always its chief literary achievement. Her two most...
