Malcolm Douglas-Pennant, 6th Baron Penrhyn explained

Honorific Prefix:The Right Honourable
The Lord Penrhyn
Office:Member of the House of Lords
Status:Lord Temporal
Term Label:as a hereditary peer
Term Start:3 February 1967
Predecessor:The 5th Baron Penrhyn
Term End:11 November 1999
Successor:Seat abolished
Party:Conservative Party
Birth Name:Malcolm Frank Douglas-Pennant
Birth Date:11 July 1908

Colonel Malcolm Frank Douglas-Pennant, 6th Baron Penrhyn, (11 July 1908 – 8 November 2003), was a Welsh peer, soldier, rifleman, and farmer, and the second son of Frank Douglas-Pennant, 5th Baron Penrhyn.

Life

Penrhyn was educated at Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, before joining the 60th Rifles in 1929. He served in India and Burma before working with the Free French forces in North Africa during the Second World War. Douglas-Pennant was awarded an MBE for his involvement in the invasion of Sicily. After the war, he stayed on in Germany until 1948 and spent the rest of his military career training soldiers to fire rifles accurately. He was a noted sharpshooter, and was on the House of Lords shooting team. His older brother predeceased both him and his father without male issue. His father was 101 years and 74 days when he died on 3 February 1967 and was then the oldest ever hereditary peer, a record that was not surpassed until the death of the seventh Viscount St Vincent in September 2006. After Lord Penhryn too died without male issue (he had two daughters), the Penrhyn barony passed to his nephew.[1]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Colonel the Lord Penrhyn . 9 December 2003 .