Robert Hughes-Penney

Alderman
Robert Hughes-Penney
Alderman
for the City Ward of Cheap
Incumbent
Assumed office
5 July 2018
Preceded byLord Mountevans
Succeeded byin office
Sheriff of the City of London
Incumbent
Assumed office
26 September 2025
Preceded byGregory Jones
Succeeded byin office
Personal details
BornRobert Charles Hughes-Penney
(1968-03-02) 2 March 1968
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Spouse
Elspeth Joanna Hoare
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(m. 1998)​
Children3
Alma materHaberdashers' Aske's School, Elstree
OccupationInvestment banker

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]

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. 26 November 2024.
  2. ↑ www.cityoflondon.gov.uk
  3. ↑ "2018 Finalists | www.exforcesinbusiness.co.uk". 16 April 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". 11 January 2019.
  9. ↑ "About Lord Mayoral Appraisal process". City of London.
  10. ↑ "London Directory | London Councils – Home". www.londoncouncils.gov.uk. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
  11. ↑ "Livery companies". City of London.
  12. ↑ "Robert Hughes-Penney | Guild of Investment Managers". www.coinvmgt.com. Archived from the original on 3 October 2022.
  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. 25 November 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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