Longford E - Ned Pakenham to marry

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1210591/De-Silva-love-loses-shine.html

Hats off to Ned Packenham, heir to the earldom of Longford, who
marries his girlfriend Sarah Lindsey this weekend. It will be a large
wedding for the pair, who met as history of art students at the
Courtauld Institute six years ago.
'Sarah is charming. I'm not nervous at all and looking forward to the
day,' says Ned, 39, a furniture specialist at auctioneers Bonhams and
grandson of the late prison reformer Lord Longford. American-born
Sarah is a teacher at a West London prep school.
Says writer Rachel Billington, one of Ned's aunts (he has seven aunts
and uncles): 'It will be a very traditional wedding - but a huge one.
Ned has a brother and two sisters, and we all have three children or
more who'll be invited. It will be wonderful.'
The crowd will be cramming into the family's local church at
Etchingham, East Sussex, before a reception at their 18th century pile
in nearby Hurst Green. Ned's father, Thomas, who prefers not to use
his title, and his wife, Valerie, will travel from their Irish home.

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Ned Pakenham is otherwise known as Hon. Edward Melchior Pakenham, or
Lord Silchester b. 6 Jan 1970 (Is he the same Ned Pakenham who
contributed to Rough Guide South India?)

He is the elder son of Thomas Frank Dermot Pakenham, 8th Earl of
Longford (who doesn not use his title) and his wife Valerie Susan
McNair Scott. Thomas Pakenham is the eldest son of the late 7th Earl
of Longford by his wife Elizabeth Harman (otherwise known as the
Countess of Longford, Elizabeth Longford professionally), who both
died in their nineties after inaugarating a literary dynasty. His wife
Valerie is the third and yst daughter (of two sons and four daughters)
of Major Ronald Guthrie McNair Scott and Hon. Mary Cecilia Berry,
daughter of the 1st Viscount Camrose.

Ned has two older sisters Anna and Eliza, the latter has written a
family history
Soldier, Sailor: An Intimate Portrait of an Irish Family, by Eliza
Pakenham, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 312 pp, £20, ISBN: 978-0297843771
http://www.drb.ie/apr08_issues/p_ancestral_vices.htm (This describes
and critizes the author's approach to her ancestral history)

Sources:
Thomas, 8th Earl of Longford
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Pakenham_(historian)
http://www.thepeerage.com/p7094.htm
parentage: http://www.thepeerage.com/p7093.htm#i70930

Valerie Scott
http://www.thepeerage.com/p7095.htm#i70945
parentage: http://www.thepeerage.com/p4519.htm

the family seat for 350 years Tullynally Castle, or Pakenham Hall
Castle
http://www.tullynallycastle.com/
http://www.tullynallycastle.com/thist1.html

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