Viscount Marchwood, of Penang and of Marchwood in the County of Southampton, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created in 1945 for the businessman and Conservative

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 politician Frederick Penny, 1st Baron Marchwood

Frederick Penny, 1st Viscount Marchwood

Frederick George Penny, 1st Viscount Marchwood KCVO, JP was a British Conservative Party politician.The second son of Frederick James Penny of Bitterne in Hampshire, Penny was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, Southampton.He was a senior partner Fraser & Co., Government brokers,...

. 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. 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
  Frederick Penny, 1st Viscount Marchwood
  Frederick George Penny, 1st Viscount Marchwood KCVO, JP was a British Conservative Party politician.The second son of Frederick James Penny of Bitterne in Hampshire, Penny was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, Southampton.He was a senior partner Fraser & Co., Government brokers,...
  
   (1876–1955)
• Peter George Penny, 2nd Viscount Marchwood (1912–1979)
• David George Staveley Penny, 3rd Viscount Marchwood (b. 1936)

The heir apparent

Heir apparent

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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)