Robert Hughes-Penney

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Elspeth Joanna Hoare
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Alderman
Robert Hughes-Penney
Alderman
for the City Ward of Cheap
Assumed office
5 July 2018
Children3
Alma mater Haberdashers' Aske's School, Elstree
Occupation Investment banker
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Arms of Alderman and Sheriff Robert Hughes-Penney

Robert Charles Hughes-Penney FCSI (born 2 March 1968), is a British financier who serves as an Alderman since 2018 [1] and Sheriff of the City of London for 2025/26. [2]

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Biography

Educated at Haberdashers' Aske's School Elstree before going up to Manchester Polytechnic (BSc 1989), Hughes-Penney then entered RMA Sandhurst being commissioned into the British Army in 1990. As a subaltern he served overseas with the 13th/18th Royal Hussars then Light Dragoons (after amalgamation), being promoted Captain in 1993. [3]

After military service, Hughes-Penney joined City stockbrokers Laurence Keen 1993–95, becoming a director of Rathbone Investment Management 2003–06 [4] and a director of Investing for Good 2016–20. [5] Elected a Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (FCSI), since 2020 he serves on its board [6] since 2021. [7]

Hughes-Penney represents the Ward of Cheap [8] as Alderman on the City of London Corporation since 2018, [9] previously being elected to the Court of Common Council 2004–12. [10]

A Court Assistant of the Haberdashers' Company since 2008 (then Warden), [11] Hughes-Penney was also a Governor of Haberdashers’ Aske's School for Girls Elstree (2009–16), Master of the Guild of Investment Managers for 2019/20. [12] Appointed to the Council of the City and Guilds of London Institute in 2006–10 (Hon. Member since 2010), he has served as a Trustee of Mercy Ships UK 1999–2004, the City Parochial Foundation 2004–10, on the Court of the Clergy Support Trust 2021–24 [13] and as a Trustee of Morden College since 2024. [14]

He is also a member of the Cavalry & Guards Club, the City Livery Club and the HAC. [15]

Family

The son of Roger Hughes-Penney, of The Chase, Henham, Essex [16] [17] and Angela née Lee, in 1998 he married Elspeth, a solicitor [18] [19] and daughter of Dr David Gurney Hoare. [20]

Hughes-Penney and his wife live at Gerrards Cross in Buckinghamshire, and have two sons and a daughter. [21]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Member details - Robert Charles Hughes-Penney (Alderman)". democracy.cityoflondon.gov.uk. November 26, 2024.
  2. ↑ www.cityoflondon.gov.uk
  3. ↑ "2018 Finalists | www.exforcesinbusiness.co.uk". April 16, 2018.
  4. ↑ "Rathbones' Investment Director becomes Master Investment Manager | Rathbones". www.rathbones.com.
  5. ↑ "Investing for Good". Investing for Good.
  6. ↑ "CISI Board of Directors". www.cisi.org.
  7. ↑ "Robert Hughes-Penney". Impact Investing Institute.
  8. ↑ "Robert Hughes-Penney | www.wardofcheap.city". January 11, 2019.
  9. ↑ "About Lord Mayoral Appraisal process". City of London.
  10. ↑ "London Directory | London Councils – Home". www.londoncouncils.gov.uk. Retrieved 2024-11-26.
  11. ↑ "Livery companies". City of London.
  12. ↑ "Robert Hughes-Penney | Guild of Investment Managers". www.coinvmgt.com. Archived from the original on 2022-10-03.
  13. ↑ "Trustees | Clergy Support Trust". www.clergysupport.org.uk.
  14. ↑ "Morden College Trustees". 2025.
  15. ↑ "Joining the HAC". Honourable Artillery Company.
  16. ↑ www.tasbs.org.uk
  17. ↑ www.heuchurch.org
  18. ↑ "The Goldsmiths' Company". The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths. November 25, 2024.
  19. ↑ "Agapé homepage". Agapé UK.
  20. ↑ "OStJ Priory News - Spring 2020" (PDF). www.stjohnengland.org.uk.
  21. ↑ "Burke's Peerage & Baronetage". burkespeerage.com.
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