Frank Douglas-Pennant, 5th Baron Penrhyn (21 November 1865 – 3 February 1967) was a British nobleman and

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for

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Life

He attended

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and the

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and became an officer in the

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(KRRC), fighting in the

Boer War The Second Boer War ( af, Tweede Vryheidsoorlog, , 11 October 189931 May 1902), also known as the Boer War, the Anglo–Boer War, or the South African War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the two Boer Republics (the Sou ...

. His first marriage was on 25 April 1892 to Maud Eleonora Hardy, daughter of Colonel John Hardy, but they divorced in 1903. His second was to Alice Nellie Cooper, daughter of Sir William Charles Cooper, 3rd Baronet Cooper of Woollahra. Early in the

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he was made Lieutenant Colonel of the KRRC's 10th (Service) Battalion. In 1949 the 4th Baron Penrhyn died without issue, leaving the direct male line from the 1st Baron extinct. Frank Douglas-Pennant thus succeeded to the barony at age 83. However, his eldest son predeceased him and so it was inherited, following his death at the age of 101 in 1969, by his second son Malcolm.

Issue

*By Maud Eleonora Hardy: **

Cyril Douglas-Pennant Admiral The Honourable Sir Cyril Eustace Douglas-Pennant KCB CBE DSO DSC (7 April 1894 – 3 April 1961) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, The Nore. Naval career Born the son of Frank Douglas-Pennant, 5th Baron Pe ...

(1894–1961) **Bridget Violet Douglas-Pennant (1899–1978) **Eileen Maud Douglas-Pennant (1901–1998) *By Alice Nellie Cooper: **Colonel

Malcolm Douglas-Pennant, 6th Baron Penrhyn 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 ...

(1908–2003) **Nigel Douglas-Pennant (1909–2000) **Susan Victoria Douglas-Pennant (1918–2014)

References

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