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.
Lord Marchwood was the elder son of Peter 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.
On 6 April 1979, he succeeded to the viscountcy and other titles upon the death of his father. He sat in the House of Lords as a Conservative until 1999 when the right of most hereditary peers to seats was removed by the House of Lords Act 1999.[1]
Marchwood worked for Cadbury Schweppes between 1958 and 1985, when he became managing director of Moët & Chandon (London).[2]
On 26 September 1964, Marchwood married firstly Tessa Jane Norris, daughter of Wilfred Francis Norris. They had three sons:[2] [3]
Marchwood married secondly Sylvia Kathleen Willis Fleming Bastin, daughter of Major General George Edward Restalic Bastin, on 13 December 2001.[2] There were no children from this marriage.
Marchwood died on 3 October 2022, at the age of 86, and was succeeded in the viscountcy and other titles by his eldest son, Peter.[4] Lady Marchwood died in 2023.[5]