Viscount Marchwood

Viscount Marchwood, of Penang and of Marchwood in the County of Southampton, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1945 for the businessman and Conservative politician Frederick Penny, 1st Baron Marchwood. He had already been created a Baronet, of Marchwood in the County of Southampton, in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 19 June 1933, and Baron Marchwood, of Penang and of Marchwood in the County of Southampton, in 1937, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. As of 2010 the titles are held by his grandson, the third Viscount, who succeeded his father in 1979.

Viscounts Marchwood (1945)

Frederick George Penny, 1st Viscount Marchwood (1876–1955)
Peter George Penny, 2nd Viscount Marchwood (1912–1979)
David George Staveley Penny, 3rd Viscount Marchwood (b. 1936)

The heir apparent is the present holder's son the Hon. Peter George Worsley Penny (b. 1965)

The heir apparent's heir apparent is his son Christopher (Kit) David George Penny (b. 1999)

Notes

References

Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,
Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by David George Staveley Penny, 3rd Viscount Marchwood

British viscounts*

In the peerages of England, Scotland and Great Britain

Hereford Falkland Arbuthnott Oxfuird Bolingbroke & St John Cobham Falmouth Torrington Hood

In the peerage of Ireland *(pre-1801)*

Gormanston Mountgarret Valentia Dillon Massereene & Ferrard Charlemont Downe Molesworth Chetwynd Midleton Boyne Gage Galway Powerscourt Ashbrook Southwell de Vesci Lifford Bangor Doneraile Haberton Hawarden

In the peerages of United Kingdom & Ireland (post-1801)

*Current substantive viscounts, listed by precedence, from highest to lowest

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