- 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 inHampshire , 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 theFederated Malay States Government in negotiations withNetherlands Indies Government atBandoeng , Java, regarding liquidation of war (1914–1918) tin stocks.He was
Member of Parliament for Kingston-upon-Thames from 1922 until 1937. He served asParliamentary private secretary to theFinancial 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, asVice-Chamberlain of the Household from 1931–1932, asComptroller of the Household from 1932–1935, and asTreasurer 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 HonourableOrder of the Crown of Johore . He was Master ofHonourable 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 theviscountcy as 1stViscount Marchwood in the1945 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours .-
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"'(of Marchwood, Hampshire)
years="'1933–1955
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