David Penny, 3rd Viscount Marchwood

David George Staveley Penny, 3rd Viscount Marchwood (22 May 1936 – 3 October 2022) was a British peer, a Conservative member of the House of Lords from 1979 to 1999.

The son of Peter George Penny, 2nd Viscount Marchwood, and his wife Pamela Colton-Fox, he was educated at Winchester College and then commissioned into the Royal Horse Guards as a 2nd Lieutenant, serving between 1955 and 1957. He worked for Cadbury Schweppes between 1958 and 1985, when he became managing director of Moët & Chandon (London).[1]

On 6 April 1979, he succeeded his father as Viscount Marchwood, of Penang and of Marchwood, Hampshire (U.K., 1945), Baron Marchwood, of Penang and of Marchwood (U.K., 1937), and as a baronet.[1] He sat in the House of Lords as a Conservative until 1999.[2]

On 26 September 1964, Marchwood married firstly Tessa Jane Norris, daughter of Wilfred Francis Norris, and with her had three sons: Peter George Worsley Penny, later 4th Viscount Marchwood (born 1965), Nicholas Mark Staveley Penny (born 1967), and Edward James Frederick Penny (born 1970).[1]

He married, secondly Sylvia Kathleen Willis Fleming Bastin, daughter of George Edward Restalic Bastin, on 13 December 2001. In 2003, he was living at 5 Buckingham Mews, Westminster.[1]

Marchwood died on 3 October 2022, aged 86,[3] and was succeeded in his peerages by his eldest son.