David George Staveley Penny, 3rd Viscount Marchwood (22 May 1936 – 3 October 2022) was a British peer, a

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member of the

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from 1979 to 1999.

Early life and education

Lord Marchwood was the elder son of

Peter Penny, 2nd Viscount Marchwood Peter George Penny, 2nd Viscount Marchwood (7 November 1912 - 6 April 1979) was a British soldier, businessman and hereditary peer who was a Conservative member of the House of Lords from 1955 to 1979. Early life and education Lord Marchwood was t ...

and his wife Pamela Colton-Fox. He was educated at

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and then commissioned into the

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as a 2nd Lieutenant, serving between 1955 and 1957. On 6 April 1979, he succeeded to the viscountcy and other titles upon the death of his father. He sat in the House of Lords as a Conservative until 1999 when the right of most

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s to seats was removed by the

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Business career

Marchwood worked for

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between 1958 and 1985, when he became managing director of

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(London).''

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'', volume 2, 2003, page 2614

Marriages and children

On 26 September 1964, Marchwood married firstly Tessa Jane Norris, daughter of Wilfred Francis Norris. They had three sons: * Peter George Worsley Penny, 4th Viscount Marchwood (born 8 October 1965) *

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Nicholas Mark Staveley Penny (born 17 December 1967) * Hon Edward James Frederick Penny (born 26 June 1970) Marchwood married secondly Sylvia Kathleen Willis Fleming Bastin, daughter of Major General George Edward Restalic Bastin, on 13 December 2001. There were no children from this marriage.

Death

Marchwood died on 3 October 2022, at the age of 86, and was succeeded in the viscountcy and other titles by his eldest son, Peter. Lady Marchwood died in 2023.Marchwood
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Marchwood Marchwood is a village and civil parish located in Hampshire, England. It lies between Totton and Hythe on the western shore of Southampton Water and directly east of the New Forest. The population of the village in the 2011 census was 6, ...

20th-century British Army personnel