Francis Aungier Pakenham seventh Earl of Longford

In England, MW had a comfortable middle-class upbringing. Her godfather was crime reformer Lord Longford (father of historian and novelist Antonia Fraser ). A writer, Violet Trefusis , was her godmother and another novelist, Lawrence Durrell

AF 's father, born Francis Aungier (Frank) Pakenham, was an Oxford academic whose subject was politics. He became the seventh Earl of Longford in 1961, but he had already been made Baron Pakenham by Clement Attlee

JK 's father, Francis Aungier Pakenham, was an Oxford academic teaching political science when his daughter Judith was born. He was already a maverick: he commanded the Oxford Local Defence Volunteers (later the Home Guard)...

This pamphlet began as an address given at a public meeting.Lord Longford was campaigning for the suppression of pornography.

BB entered the current political debate about pornography and censorship in a pamphlet entitled The Longford Threat to Freedom, published for the National Secular Society .

JK titled a poetry volume from the hour when my mother died:Just After Midnight. She remembers her and my extraordinary father in the book's last section.