Edward Sholto Douglas-Pennant, 3rd Baron Penrhyn (10 June 1864 – 22 August 1927), was a British

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, Penrhyn was the son of George Douglas-Pennant, 2nd Baron Penrhyn, and his first wife Pamela Blanche, daughter of Sir Charles Rushout, 2nd Baronet. He entered Parliament for Northamptonshire South in the 1895 general election, a seat he held until 1900, when he was replaced by his brother-in-law

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.''Burke's'': 'Penrhyn'. Douglas-Pennant served in the

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as a

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, and later as a major in its Reserve Regiment. Afterwards he served in the Buckinghamshire (Royal Bucks Hussars) Imperial Yeomanry as major and later as

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. On 1 July 1907 he was appointed Honorary Colonel of the 4th (Royal Carnarvon and Merioneth Militia) Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, a position that his father and grandfather had also held.Owen, p. 76. Lord Penrhyn married the Hon. Blanche Georgiana, daughter of

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, in 1887. Their eldest son, the Hon. Alan George Sholto Douglas-Pennant, was killed in the

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. Penrhyn died in August 1927 at age 63, and was succeeded in the barony by his second and only surviving son Hugh. Lady Penrhyn died in November 1944.

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* ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage,'' 100th Edn, London, 1953. * Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, * Bryn Owen, ''History of the Welsh Militia and Volunteer Corps 1757–1908: 1: Anglesey and Caernarfonshire'', Caernarfon: Palace Books, 1989, ISBN 1-871904-00-5. * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Penrhyn, Edward Douglas-Pennant, 3rd Baron 1864 births 1927 deaths 3 Edward British Life Guards officers Royal Buckinghamshire Yeomanry officers Carnarvon Militia officers Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1895–1900 Penrhyn, B3 Eldest sons of British hereditary barons