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Thomas Pakenham - For the brigadier general of the same name, see Thomas Pakenham, 5th Earl of Longford. For further people of the same name, see Earl of Longford.
Thomas Francis Dermot Pakenham (born August 14, 1933) is an Anglo-Irish historian and author of several prize winning non-fiction books. He is also known as Thomas Pakenham, Lord Longford, the 8th Earl of Longford. He does not use the title and did not use his courtesy title before succeeding his father. He is the son of Frank Pakenham and Elizabeth Longford. His sister Antonia Fraser is also a writer. Biography Thomas Pakenham was born in 1933 and educated in Dublin, Oxford and York. After graduating from Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1955 he travelled to Ethiopia, a trip which is described in his first book The Mountains of Rasselas. On returning to England he worked on the editorial staff of the Times Educational Supplement, the Sunday Telegraph, and later The Observer. As of 2005, he lives in London and County Westmeath, Ireland where is chairman of the Irish Tree Society and custodian of Tullynally Castle. Bilbliography Books authored or co-authored by Thomas Pakenham in reverse chronological order: - Books about trees
- Remarkable Baobab (2004) ISBN 0297843737
- Remarkable Trees of the World (2002) ISBN 0297843001
- Meetings with Remarkable Trees (1996) ISBN 0297832557 (made into a radio and television series of the same name)
- Historical books
External links Longford, Thomas Pakenham, 8th Earl of Longford, Thomas Francis Dermot Pakenham, 8th Earl of
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