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Francis Aungier Pakenham (1905-2001), the seventh Earl of Longford, commonly known as '''Lord Longford''', was a politician and social reformer famous for his campaign against [[pornography]] and his campaign for the release of the Moors murderer [[Myra Hindley]]<ref>http://politics.guardian.co.uk/politicsobituaries/story/0,1441,563425,00.html</ref>.  
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[[Image:Lord Longford.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Lord Longford]]
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'''Francis Aungier Pakenham''' (1905-2001), the seventh Earl of Longford, commonly known as '''Lord Longford''', was a politician and social reformer famous for his campaign against [[pornography]] and his campaign for the release of the Moors murderer [[Myra Hindley]]<ref>http://politics.guardian.co.uk/politicsobituaries/story/0,1441,563425,00.html</ref>.  
    
Longford was initially a member of the [[Conservative Party]] but was converted to [[Socialism]] by his fiancee (the biographer Elizabeth Longford), whom he married in 1931. From 1945 to 1951 he was a junior minister in the Labour government of [[Clement Attlee]] and from 1964 to 1968 was a cabinet minister in the Labour government of [[Harold Wilson]].
 
Longford was initially a member of the [[Conservative Party]] but was converted to [[Socialism]] by his fiancee (the biographer Elizabeth Longford), whom he married in 1931. From 1945 to 1951 he was a junior minister in the Labour government of [[Clement Attlee]] and from 1964 to 1968 was a cabinet minister in the Labour government of [[Harold Wilson]].
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