Conrad Penny
| Conrad Penny | |
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| Born |
Conrad Hugo Penny[1] 31 May 1951 Durban, South Africa[1] |
| Nationality | South African |
| Occupation | Property broker and valuer, researcher, analyst |
| Known for | Evaluating the whole of Soweto, and being a descendant of the Plantagenet (royal house) of England and consequently a descendant of the brother of King Richard III. |
Conrad Hugo Penny (born 31 May 1951) is a South African property broker and property valuer who has worked for Penny Brothers Brokers & Valuers for over forty five years. He is the founder and chair of Penny Holdings (Pty) Ltd. and the Managing Director of Penny Brothers Brokers & Valuers (Pty) Ltd. He is also an appraiser to the South African Minister of Justice.[1][2]
Family and early life
Conrad Penny was born on 31 May 1951 in Durban, South Africa, the son of Errol Penny and Nina Hartdegen, Grandson of Magnus Penny and Elizabeth le Sueur, Great-Grandson of Herbert Penny (founder of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in the Cape which ultimately led to the formation of the South African Navy) and Carlotta Forssman (daughter of Chevalier Oscar Wilhelm Alric Forssman).
He was educated at St Stithians College (1964–65) and Hyde Park High School (1966–68) in Johannesburg and later passed the Valuer’s Exam set by The South African Council of Property Valuers Profession (SACPVP). He married Baroness Maria-Therésia Kotz von Dobrz in Austria on 7 January 1978 and with whom he has two sons and two daughters.
Career
In 1996, Penny's company Penny Brothers Brokers & Valuers (Pty) Ltd. was awarded tenders for the valuation of the whole of Soweto, in Johannesburg), which valuation included over 325 000 dwellings. The tenders were awarded by the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality for taxing and rating purposes. This was the single largest valuation ever undertaken in Africa.[3]
Penny is a member of the Institute of Estate Agents of South Africa, a member of the South African Institute of Valuers, Appraiser to the Hon. The Minister of Justice in South Africa, and is registered as a Professional Valuer with the South African Council for the Property Valuers Profession.
He is the owner of Chartwell Castle,[4] in north western Johannesburg, where he laid out the largest permanent hedgerow maze in the Southern Hemisphere.
Genealogy
In March 2015, Richard III of England's descendants were in attendance at his re-internment having been traced by Kevin Schürer, a Professor in genealogy at the University of Leicester, and it was confirmed that Conrad Penny is related to Richard III. Penny is also a descendant of the following;[5]
Edward III of England, Henry IV of England, Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York, Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick ("The Kingmaker"), George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence and, his daughter Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, the last living Plantagenet.
He thus attended the interment of King Richard III of England on 26 March 2015 as a recognized descendant, of not only the House of York and the House of Lancaster, but also of more than ten other participants in the 1485 Battle of Bosworth Field, namely:
Sir William Stanley KG, who led his men in a surprise attack on Richard lll (from behind, resulting in Richard’s death), John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford (leader of Henry Tudor’s Army), Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland (leader of the left flank of Richard lll’s army), Sir Roger Kynaston, Sir James Harrington (Yorkist Knight), Robert Harrington, (brother of the above), Charles Beaufort, 1st Earl of Worcester the son of the 2nd Duke of Somerset, Sir Humphrey Stafford KG, Humphrey of Grafton and Sir Richard Ratcliffe KG.
More recently, his lineage derives from Richard Penny of Marchwood as indicated in Burkes Peerage & Baronetage [6] and through his mother's maternal grandfather who was Cunninghame Wilson Moore and brother of Sir Archibald Gordon Moore (an Admiral of the Fleet).
The Penny family Pedigree is registered at The College of Arms in London.[7]
Other lines of descent outside England include King Gustav I and Eric XIV of Sweden; Kings Louis IX and Philip IV of France and Robert the Bruce, King of the Scots.
References
- 1 2 3 http://www.whoswho.co.za/conrad-penny-2493
- ↑ http://saiv.org.za/index.php?option=com_community&view=profile&userid=1342&Itemid=125
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-07-26. Retrieved 2013-04-15.
- ↑ http://www.chartwellcastle.co.za/
- ↑ http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/mar/25/richard-iii-battle-of-bosworth-descendants-meet-for-kings-reburial
- ↑ http://www.burkespeerage.com/search_index.php?book=107th
- ↑ http://www.college-of-arms.gov.uk/