Sir, – Your otherwise excellent and informative obituary notice ("Journalist who led the field in horse racing", May 2nd) for Valentine Lamb, formerly editor of the Irish Field racing paper, states that his mother Pansy Pakenham was the daughter of "Frank Pakenham, the fifth Lord Longford, a celebrated Anglo-Irish peer, politician and campaigner". Frank Pakenham was the seventh Earl of Longford, not the fifth, and was a brother of Val Lamb's mother, Pansy. – Yours, etc,
HUGH McFADDEN,
Dublin 6W.