Longford, Francis Aungier Pakenham, 7th earl of

Longford, Francis Aungier Pakenham, 7th earl of
▪ 2002

      British politician and social reformer (b. Dec. 5, 1905, London, Eng.—d. Aug. 3, 2001, London), was admired as an active, though sometimes eccentric, social reformer in a long political career as a government minister in the 1940s and '50s and later as an outspoken member of the House of Lords, of which he was leader 1964–68. The son of the 5th earl of Longford, he was educated at Eton College and New College, Oxford, where he specialized in banking. During the 1930s he converted from Anglo-Irish Protestantism to Roman Catholicism and from the Conservative Party to the socialist Labour Party. He held a variety of ministerial posts under Prime Minister Clement Attlee, notably undersecretary of state for war (1946–47), chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster overseeing the British zone in occupied Germany (1947–48), minister of civil aviation (1948–51), and first lord of the admiralty (1951). He was created Baron Pakenham in 1945, succeeded to the earldom on the death of his older brother in 1961, and was made a knight of the garter in 1971. As a member of the House of Lords for 40 years, Longford was most often associated with his vigorous campaigns against pornography and for prison reform. Longford was also chairman (1955–63) of the National Bank in London, chairman (1970–80) and director (1980–85) of the publishing house Sidgwick and Jackson, and the author of a score of books.

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