Frederick Penny, 1st Viscount Marchwood

Frederick George Penny, 1st Viscount Marchwood KCVO, JP (10 March 1876 – 1 January 1955) 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, Singapore, and formerly Managing Director of Eastern Smelting Co. Ltd, Penang. He represented the Federated Malay States Government in negotiations with Netherlands Indies Government at Bandoeng, Java, regarding liquidation of war (1914–1918) tin stocks.

He was Member of Parliament for Kingston-upon-Thames from 1922 until 1937. He served as Parliamentary private secretary to the Financial Secretary to the War Office in 1923, and as a Conservative Whip from 1926–1937, including as a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury from 1928–1929 and in 1931, as Vice-Chamberlain of the Household from 1931–1932, as Comptroller of the Household from 1932–1935, and as Treasurer of the Household from 1935–1937.

MacAndrew was Honorary Treasurer of the Conservative Party from 1938–1946.

He was appointed a Freeman of the City of London, and an Officer (1st Class) of the Most Honourable Order of the Crown of Johore. He was Master of Honourable Company of Master Mariners from 1941–1945.

He was knighted in 1929, created a baronet in 1933 and raised to the peerage as 1st Baron Marchwood, of Penang and of Marchwood, Southampton, in 1937. He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in the same year. He was promoted to the viscountcy as 1st Viscount Marchwood in the 1945 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours.

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