Chairman of the Irish Tree Society and honorary custodian of Tullynally Castle. Pakenham owned Longford Greyhound Stadium until 1966, when he sold it to Longford Sports Ltd. Bibliography The Mountains of Rasselas: Ethiopian Adventure (1959) The Boer War (1979) (winner of The Cheltenham Prize) The Scramble for Africa (1991)(winner of the WH Smith Literary Award and the Alan Paton Award) The Year of Liberty: The History of the Great Irish Rebellion of 1798 (1993) Meetings with Remarkable Trees (1996) (made into a radio series and a television series under the same title) Remarkable Trees of the World (2002) Remarkable Baobab (2004) The Company of Trees: A Year in a Lifetime's Quest (2015) References External link Tullynally Castle 1933 births 20th-century Irish people 21st-century Irish people Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford Living people English historians 20th-century Irish historians British writers Arborists English Roman Catholics Converts to Roman Catholicism Thomas People educated at Belvedere College 8 People in greyhound racing Sons of life peers