Viscount Marchwood
{{short description|Viscountcy in the Peerage of the United Kingdom}}
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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|2022}} the titles are held by his great-grandson, the fourth Viscount, who succeeded his father in that year. The third Viscount was educated at Winchester College and served in the Royal Horse Guards, before a career in the drinks industry, first at Cadbury Schweppes, then as managing director of Moet et Chandon.
The family seat was The Filberts in Aston Tirrold, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire).
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 (1936–2022)
- Peter George Worsley Penny, 4th Viscount Marchwood (b. 1965)
The heir apparent is the present holder’s only son Hon. Christopher (Kit) David George Penny (b. 1999)
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|escutcheon = Gules six fleurs-de-lis three two and one Or on a chief engrailed of the second three roses of the first barbed and seeded Proper.
|crest = Issuant from a circlet Or a demi-lion Gules collard Sable charged on the shoulder with a rose and holding in the dexter paw a fleur-de-lis Gold.
|supporters = On the dexter side a Malayan tiger and on the sinister side a sea lion both Proper.
|motto = Semper Paratus {{cite book|title=Burke's Peerage |date=1959}}}}
Line of succession
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- 15px Frederick George Penny, 1st Viscount Marchwood (1876–1955)Burke's Peerage, volume 2 (London: Burke's Peerage, Ltd., 2003), page 2614
- 15px Peter George Penny, 2nd Viscount Marchwood (1912–1979)
- 15px David George Staveley Penny, 3rd Viscount Marchwood (1936–2022)
- 15px Peter George Worsley Penny, 4th Viscount Marchwood (b. 1965)
- (1) Hon. Christopher David George Penny (b. 1999)
- (2) Hon. Nicholas Mark Staveley Penny (b. 1967)
- (3) Hon. Edward James Frederick Penny (b. 1970)
- (4) Alexander George Robert Penny (b. 1997)
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Notes
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References
- Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, {{Page needed |date=February 2013}}
External links
- {{Hansard-contribs | mr-david-penny | David George Staveley Penny, 3rd Viscount Marchwood }}
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Category:Viscountcies in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
Category:Noble titles created in 1945