Lieutenant-General Lieutenant general (Lt Gen, LTG and similar) is a three-star military rank (NATO code OF-8) used in many countries. The rank traces its origins to the Middle Ages, where the title of lieutenant general was held by the second-in-command on the ...

Thomas Henry Pakenham (26 June 1826 – 20 February 1913) was an Irish

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politician and

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officer.

Military career

A member of the Pakenham family headed by the

Earl of Longford Earl of Longford is a title that has been created twice in the Peerage of Ireland. History The title was first bestowed upon Francis Aungier, 3rd Baron Aungier of Longford, in 1677, with remainder to his younger brother Ambrose. He had previ ...

, he was the son of the Honourable Sir Hercules Pakenham and the Honourable Emily Stapleton, daughter of Thomas Stapleton, 16th

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. He fought in the

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in 1854 and in the Fenian raids in 1866. He was first elected as the

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(MP) for Antrim in 1854, succeeding his brother

Edward Pakenham Major General Sir Edward Michael Pakenham, (19 March 1778 – 8 January 1815), was a British Army officer and politician. He was the son of the Baron Longford and the brother-in-law of the Duke of Wellington, with whom he served in the Penin ...

, who was killed at the

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. He remained MP until 1865. He became Commander of 1st Infantry Brigade in February 1878 and General Officer Commanding Western District in 1880. Pakenham married Elizabeth Staples Clarke, daughter of William Clarke, of

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, in 1862. They had two sons,

Hercules Pakenham Colonel Hercules Arthur Pakenham (17 February 1863 – 28 March 1937) was a unionist politician in Northern Ireland. A member of the Pakenham family headed by the Earl of Longford, he was the eldest son of Lieutenant-General Thomas Pakenh ...

and Major Harry Francis Pakenham. Pakenham died in February 1913, aged 86. His wife died in February 1919.

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* , - 1826 births 1913 deaths Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Antrim constituencies (1801–1922) UK MPs 1852–1857 UK MPs 1857–1859 UK MPs 1859–1865 British Army lieutenant generals Military personnel from Dublin (city)

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