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New Zealand Tablet, 20 March 1913, Page 13

It is recalled that Col. Pakenham, the Tory candidate who contested Derry, comes of a family which yielded a famous priest to the Catholic Church in the person of Father Paul Mary Pakenham, C.P., the fourth son of the first Earl of Longford, who became a convert to the Catholic Church in the days of the Tractarian movement, and was practically the pioneer of the Passionist Order in Ireland. It was he who founded Mount Argus Retreat, Dublin, He died in 1857.