Hugh Napier Douglas-Pennant, 4th Baron Penrhyn (6 August 1894 – 26 June 1949) was a British nobleman and army officer.

Life

He was the second of two surviving sons born to

Edward Douglas-Pennant, 3rd Baron Penrhyn Edward Sholto Douglas-Pennant, 3rd Baron Penrhyn (10 June 1864 – 22 August 1927), was a British Conservative politician. A member of the Douglas family headed by the Earl of Morton, Penrhyn was the son of George Douglas-Pennant, 2nd Baron Pen ...

, and Blanche Georgiana FitzRoy, daughter of

Charles FitzRoy, 3rd Baron Southampton Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "f ...

. He studied at

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and the

Royal Military College Sandhurst The Royal Military College (RMC), founded in 1801 and established in 1802 at Great Marlow and High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, England, but moved in October 1812 to Sandhurst, Berkshire, was a British Army military academy for training infantry ...

. He fought in the First World War in the 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys). He became

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to the barony after his elder brother Alan was killed in 1914 on the Western Front and succeeded to it in 1927 after their father's death. After the war he was president of the Conservative Association of Carnarvon and also held the offices of Justice of the Peace, Deputy Lord Lieutenant for Caernarvonshire, Lord Lieutenant for Caernarvonshire (1933–1941), knight of the Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem and Honorary Colonel in 6th Battalion Royal Fusiliers (1932–1946). On 25 April 1922 he married the Hon. Sybil Mary Hardinge, daughter of

Henry Hardinge, 3rd Viscount Hardinge Viscount Hardinge, of Lahore and of Kings Newton in the Derbyshire, County of Derby, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1846 for the soldier and Tory politician Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge, Sir Henry Hardi ...

, and granddaughter of the 2nd Viscount Hardinge – they divorced in 1941 and had no issue, whilst she remarried later that year to Denzil Fortescue, 6th Earl Fortescue. The 4th Baron died in 1949, still without issue, and so the barony passed to Frank Douglas-Pennant, who was the eldest son of the 1st Baron's second son, Archibald Douglas-Pennant (1837–1884).

References

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Hugh Hugh may refer to: *Hugh (given name) Noblemen and clergy French * Hugh the Great (died 956), Duke of the Franks * Hugh Magnus of France (1007–1025), co-King of France under his father, Robert II * Hugh, Duke of Alsace (died 895), modern-day ...