Elizabeth Pakenham
British author
Died when: 96 years 54 days (1153 months)Star Sign: Virgo
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.
She is best known as a historian, especially for her biographies of 19th-century aristocrats such as Queen Victoria (1964), Lord Byron (1976) and the Duke of Wellington (1969).
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