Thomas Pakenham
Thomas Francis Dermot Pakenham, 8th Earl of Longford, is an Anglo-Irish historian and arborist who writes about Victorian British history and trees.
Son of Labour minister Frank Pakenham and Elizabeth Longford, his sister is historian Antonia Fraser.
After graduating from Magdalen College, Oxford in 1955, he traveled to Ethiopia, described in his first book.
He worked for various British publications including The Sunday Telegraph and The Observer.
Though he holds hereditary titles, Pakenham doesn't use them and cannot sit in the House of Lords due to the 1999 Act.
He divides time between London and County Westmeath, Ireland, where he chairs the Irish Tree Society.
