Edward William Pakenham

Lieutenant-Colonel
Edward William Pakenham
Lieutenant-Colonel Edward William Pakenham
Member of Parliament for Antrim
	In office; 1852–1854 Serving with George Macartney
Preceded by	Nathaniel Alexander; Edmund Workman-Macnaghten
Succeeded by	Thomas Pakenham; George Macartney
Personal details
Born	September 1819
Died	5 November 1854 (aged 35); Inkerman, Turkey
Political party	Conservative
Relations	Edward Pakenham, 2nd Baron Longford (grandfather)
Parent(s)	Sir Hercules Robert Pakenham; Emily Stapleton
Residence	Langford Lodge

Lieutenant-Colonel Edward William Pakenham (September 1819 – 5 November 1854)^[1] was an Irish soldier and Conservative Party politician from County Antrim. He served for two years as a Member of Parliament (MP), until his death in the Crimean War.

Early life

Pakenham was the eldest son of Emily (née Stapleton) Pakenham and Sir Hercules Robert Pakenham (1781–1850),^[2] a lieutenant-general of the British Army who served as aide-de-camp to King William IV.^[3] From his father, he inherited Langford Lodge in County Antrim, which later became RAF Langford Lodge.^[4]

His mother was the fourth daughter of Sir Thomas Stapleton, 6th Baronet, 12th Baron le Despencer.^[5] His paternal grandfather was Edward Pakenham, 2nd Baron Longford and, the former, Hon. Catherine Rowley (a daughter of Elizabeth Rowley, 1st Viscountess Langford and Hercules Langford Rowley, MP.^[2] His aunt, Catherine was the wife of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington.^[6] His uncle Thomas Pakenham, 2nd Earl of Longford married Lady Georgiana Lygon (a daughter of William Lygon, 1st Earl Beauchamp). Another uncle, Maj.-Gen. Hon. Sir Edward Pakenham, served as MP for Longford Borough and was killed in action at the Battle of New Orleans.^[5] His uncle, Very Rev. Hon. Henry Pakenham was the Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, and his aunt, Hon. Caroline Penelope Pakenham, married Henry Hamilton (eldest son of Sackville Hamilton).^[5]

Pakenham joined the British Army, becoming an officer in the Grenadier Guards in 1838,^[7] and later rising to the rank of lieutenant-colonel.^[4]

At the 1852 general election, Pakenham was elected unopposed as one of the two MPs for Antrim.^[8]^[9]

Pakenham was killed in Inkerman, Turkey at the Battle of Inkerman during the Crimean War in 1854.^[10] His brother, Robert, at the relief of Lucknow in 1857.

^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "A" (part 2)
^ ^a ^b Lodge, Edmund (1872). The Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire as at Present Existing ... Hurst & Blackett. p. 362. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
^ Chichester, Henry Manners (1895). "Pakenham, Hercules Robert". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 43. London: Smith, Elder & Co. Retrieved 9 December 2013. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
^ ^a ^b "Lt.-Col. Edward William Pakenham". ThePeerage.com. Retrieved 2 May 2014.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Longford, Earl of (I, 1785)". www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk. Heraldic Media Limited. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
^ Pakenham, Eliza. Tom, Ned and Kitty: An Intimate Portrait of an Irish Family. Phoenix, 2008.
^ "No. 19578". The London Gazette. 12 January 1838. p. 98.
^ "No. 21354". The London Gazette. 31 August 1852. p. 2361.
^ Walker, Brian M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland 1801–1922. A New History of Ireland. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. p. 248. ISBN 0901714127. ISSN 0332-0286.
^ "Irish Officers at Inkerman". Dublin Evening Mail. No. 5607. 27 November 1854. p. 3. Retrieved 30 July 2019 – via British Newspaper Archive.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Nathaniel Alexander Edmund Workman-Macnaghten	Member of Parliament for Antrim 1852–1854 With: George Macartney	Succeeded by Thomas Pakenham George Macartney