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Elizabeth Longford, the Glossary

Elizabeth Pakenham, Countess of Longford, (née Harman; 30 August 1906 – 23 October 2002), better known as Elizabeth Longford, was a British historian.^[1]

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Historians of the Napoleonic Wars
Pakenham family
People educated at Francis Holland School

Antonia Fraser

Lady Antonia Margaret Caroline Fraser, (Pakenham; born 27 August 1932) is a British author of history, novels, biographies and detective fiction. Elizabeth Longford and Antonia Fraser are British women biographers, British women historians, Converts to Roman Catholicism, English Roman Catholics, Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature, James Tait Black Memorial Prize recipients, Pakenham family and Wives of knights.

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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, (1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852) was an Anglo-Irish military officer and statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures in Britain during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, serving twice as British prime minister.

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Birmingham King's Norton (UK Parliament constituency)

Birmingham King's Norton was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 to 1955.

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Cheltenham (UK Parliament constituency)

Cheltenham is a constituency in Gloucestershire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1832.

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Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative and Unionist Party, commonly the Conservative Party and colloquially known as the Tories, is one of the two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party.

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Earl of Longford

Earl of Longford is a title that has been created twice in the Peerage of Ireland. Elizabeth Longford and Earl of Longford are Pakenham family.

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Francis Holland School

Francis Holland School is the name of two separate private day schools for girls in central London, England, governed by the Francis Holland (Church of England) Schools Trust.

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Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford

Francis Aungier Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford, (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. Elizabeth Longford and Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford are Converts to Roman Catholicism, English Roman Catholics and Pakenham family.

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Harley Street

Harley Street is a street in Marylebone, Central London, named after Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer.

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Harper (publisher)

Harper is an American publishing house, the flagship imprint of global publisher, HarperCollins, based in New York City.

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Harriet Harman

Harriet Ruth Harman (born 30 July 1950) is a British politician and solicitor who was a Member of Parliament (MP) for over 40 years, from 1982 to 2024, making her one of the longest-serving MPs in British history.

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Headington School

Headington School is an independent girls' school in Headington, Oxford, England, founded by a group of evangelical Christians in 1915.

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Hodder & Stoughton

Hodder & Stoughton is a British publishing house, now an imprint of Hachette.

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House of Commons of the United Kingdom

The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Hurst Green, East Sussex

Hurst Green is a village and civil parish in the Rother district of East Sussex, England, and is located south of the East Sussex / Kent border at Flimwell.

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I.B. Tauris

I.B. Tauris is an educational publishing house and imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing.

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James Tait Black Memorial Prize

The James Tait Black Memorial Prizes are literary prizes awarded for literature written in the English language. Elizabeth Longford and James Tait Black Memorial Prize are James Tait Black Memorial Prize recipients.

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John B. Harman

John Bishop Harman, FRCS, FRCP (10 August 1907 – 13 November 1994) was a British physician, president of the Medical Defence Union and chairman of the British National Formulary.

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Joseph Chamberlain

Joseph Chamberlain (8 July 1836 – 2 July 1914) was a British statesman who was first a radical Liberal, then a Liberal Unionist after opposing home rule for Ireland, and eventually was a leading imperialist in coalition with the Conservatives.

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Judith Kazantzis

Judith Elizabeth Kazantzis (née Pakenham; 14 August 1940 – 18 September 2018) was a British poet and political and social activist. Elizabeth Longford and Judith Kazantzis are Pakenham family.

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Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a social democratic political party in the United Kingdom that sits on the centre-left of the political spectrum.

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Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford

Lady Margaret Hall (LMH) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England, located on a bank of the River Cherwell at Norham Gardens in north Oxford and adjacent to the University Parks.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was a British poet and peer.

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Marylebone

Marylebone (usually, also) is an area in London, England and is located in the City of Westminster.

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Michael Pakenham

Sir Michael Aidan Pakenham (born 3 November 1943) is a British retired diplomat. Elizabeth Longford and Michael Pakenham are Pakenham family.

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National Portrait Gallery, London

The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) is an art gallery in London that houses a collection of portraits of historically important and famous British people.

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Neville Chamberlain

Arthur Neville Chamberlain (18 March 18699 November 1940) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940 and Leader of the Conservative Party from May 1937 to October 1940.

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organizations, and public service outside the civil service.

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Oxford (UK Parliament constituency)

Oxford was a parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, comprising the city of Oxford in the county of Oxfordshire.

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Queen Victoria

Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901.

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Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone

Quintin McGarel Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone (9 October 1907 – 12 October 2001), known as the 2nd Viscount Hailsham between 1950 and 1963, at which point he disclaimed his hereditary peerage, was a British barrister and Conservative Party politician.

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Rachel Billington

Lady Rachel Mary Billington (née Pakenham; born 11 May 1942) is a British author, the third daughter of the 7th Earl and Countess of Longford; both parents were writers, as was her aunt, Christine Longford. Elizabeth Longford and Rachel Billington are Pakenham family.

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Royal Society of Literature

The Royal Society of Literature (RSL) is a learned society founded in 1820, by King George IV, to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent".

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The History Press

The History Press is a British publishing company specialising in the publication of titles devoted to local and specialist history.

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The Right Honourable

The Right Honourable (abbreviation: The Rt Hon. or variations) is an honorific style traditionally applied to certain persons and collective bodies in the United Kingdom, the former British Empire and the Commonwealth of Nations.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.

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Thomas Pakenham (historian)

Thomas Francis Dermot Pakenham, 8th Earl of Longford (born 14 August 1933), known simply as Thomas Pakenham, is an Anglo-Irish historian and arborist who has written several prize-winning books on the diverse subjects of African history, Victorian and post-Victorian British history, and trees. Elizabeth Longford and Thomas Pakenham (historian) are Pakenham family.

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Unitarianism

Unitarianism is a nontrinitarian branch of Christianity.

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Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd (established 1949), often shortened to W&N or Weidenfeld, is a British publisher of fiction and reference books.

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Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (17 August 1840 – 10 September 1922), sometimes spelt Wilfred, was an English poet and writer. Elizabeth Longford and Wilfrid Scawen Blunt are English Roman Catholics.

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Zuleika Dobson

Zuleika Dobson, full title Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story, is the only novel by English essayist Max Beerbohm, a satire of undergraduate life at Oxford published in 1911.

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1935 United Kingdom general election

The 1935 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 14 November.

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1945 United Kingdom general election

The 1945 United Kingdom general election was a national election held on Thursday 5 July 1945, but polling in some constituencies was delayed by some days, and the counting of votes was delayed until 26 July to provide time for overseas votes to be brought to Britain.

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1950 United Kingdom general election

The 1950 United Kingdom general election was the first to be held after a full term of a majority Labour government.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Longford

Also known as Elizabeth Pakenham, Elizabeth Pakenham, Countess of Longford, Lady Elizabeth Longford, Lady Longford, Longford, Elizabeth.

Elizabeth Longford, the Glossary

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See also

Historians of the Napoleonic Wars

Pakenham family

People educated at Francis Holland School

References