Malcolm Douglas-Pennant, 6th Baron Penrhyn

The Right Honourable The Lord Penrhyn DSO MBE
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
as a hereditary peer 3 February 1967 – 11 November 1999
Preceded by	The 5th Baron Penrhyn
Succeeded by	Seat abolished [a]
Personal details
Born	Malcolm Frank Douglas-Pennant 11 July 1908
Died	8 November 2003(2003-11-08) (aged 95)
Political party	Conservative

Colonel Malcolm Frank Douglas-Pennant, 6th Baron Penrhyn, DSO, MBE (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]

Notes

1. Under the House of Lords Act 1999.

References

1. "Colonel the Lord Penrhyn". 9 December 2003.

Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Frank Douglas-Pennant	Baron Penrhyn 1967–2003} Member of the House of Lords (1967–1999)	Succeeded by Simon Douglas-Pennant