Tennant, William TE^fNANT, WILLIAM. Adm. pens, at Trinity, Feb. i, 1832. [Youngest s. of Thomas, merchant, of Leeds. School, Leeds Grammar.] Matric. Michs. 1832; B.A. 1836; M.A. 1839. Ord. deacon (Lincohi) 1834; priest (Norwich) 1835. C. of St John's, Westminster, 1840-7. V. of St Stephen's, Westnainster, 1847- 79. Died July 10, 1879, aged 65. (Leeds Gr. Sch. Adm. Book; Cfockford; Clergy List; J. E. Smith, St John-the- Evangelist, Westminster, 115; Hennessy.) TENNANT, WILLIAM GALBRAITH. Adm. pens, at Trinity, June 25, 1897. [Eldest] s. of John, barrister, of The Boltons, Kensington. B. [Mar. 8], 1879. in London. School, Charter- house. Matric. Michs. 1897; B.A. 1900; M.A. 1904. Sometime ranching in the Argentine. Married, 1907, the Hon. Winifred L. Norton, 3rd dau. of Baron Grantley. Served in the Great War, 1914-19 (Lieut., Strathcona's Horse, Canadian Forces); killed in action, June 3, 1915. [Charterhouse Reg.; Univ. War List.) TENNENT (formerly EMERSON), Sir JAMES EMERSON. Hon. LL.D. 1862. [4th s. of William, merchant, of Belfast. B. Apr. 7, 1804. At Trinity College, Dublin; Hon. LL.D. 1861.] Called to the Bar, Jan. 28, 1831. M.P. for Belfast, 1832-7; for Lisbum, 1852. Secretary to the India Board, 1841-3; Civil Secretary to the Government of Ceylon, 1845-50. Knighted, 1845. Permanent Secretary to the Poor Law Board, 1852. Secretary to the Board of Trade, 1852-67. Created a Bart., Feb. 14, 1867. F.R.S., 1862. Married, June 24, 1831, Laetitia, dau. of William Tennent, of Tempo, Co. Fermanagh. Author, Ceylon. Died Mar. 6, 1869, in London. (Boas«, iii. 912; D.iV.B.) TENNENT, ROBERT. Adm. pens, (age 20) at Trinity, July 6, 1854. [Eldest] s. of Robert James (next). B. [June 24, 1835], in Belfast. School, Rugby. Matric. Michs. 1854. On being ordered to remove his moustache by the Senior Dean, migrated to St John's, Mar. 4, 1857; B.A. 1858; M.A. 1863. Adm. at Lincoln's Inn, Nov. 12, 1856. Called to the Bar, June 6. 1863. On the South-Eastera Circuit. Died Jan. 29, 1917, at his residence. Rush Park, Belfast. (Rugby Sch. Reg.; Eagle, xxxi.x. 255; Law Lists; Foster, Men at the Bar; Winstanley, Early Victorian Cambridge, 422.) TENNENT, ROBERT JAMES. Adm. Fell.-Com. at Trinity Hall, June 30, 1834; from Trinity College, Dublin, where he had been adm. July 3, 1820. Eldest s. of Robert, M.D., of Belfast (and Eliza, dau. of James Macrone,M.D.). [B. 1803 in Belfast.] Doubtful if resided. Served as a volunteer in the Greek War of Independence, 1824. Adm. at Lincoln's Inn, Jan. 26, 1826. Called to the Irish Bar, 1833, and to the English Bar, 1838. M.P. for Belfast, 1847-52- J-P- and D.L. for Co. Antrim. Married, 1830, Eliza, dau. of John McCracken, of Belfast. Died May 25, 1880, near Belfast. Father of the above. (Boose, III. 912; Return of M.P.'s; Inns of Court; WaUord, County Families.) TENNYSON, ALFRED. Adm. pens.( age 18) at Trinity, Nov. 9, 1827. [3rd] s. of the Rev. George Clayton (1796) (and EUzabeth, dau. of the Rev. Stephen Fytche). B. [Aug. 6, 1809], at Somersby, Lines. School, Louth Grammar, 1816- 20; afterwards taught by his father and by the village schoohnaster at Somersby. Matric. Lent, 1828; Chancellor's medal for EngUsh verse, 1829. Hon. Fellow, 1869. Hon. D.C.L., Oxford, 1855. His career at Cambridge was cut short by his father's illness, and for some years he led a roving and unsettled existence. The death of his College friend, Arthur Hallam, in 1833, greatly affected his life for many years and resulted in the poems In Memoriam (1850) and The Two Voices. Poet Laureate, 1850. Settled at Farringford in the Isle of Wight, 1853. F.R.S. PubUshed The Princess, 1847; Maud, 1855 ; The Idylls of the King, 1859, after which his fame and popularity were assured. Enoch Arden appeared, 1864; Locksley Hall Sixty Years After, in 1886; his last work, Lines onthe Death of the Duke of Clarence, in 1892. Married, June 13, 1850 (after 10 years' engagement), Emily, dau. of Henry Sellwood, solicitor, of Horncastle, and had issue. Created Baron Tennyson, 1884. Died Oct. 6, 1892; buried in West- minster Abbey. See Life, by his son, 1897. Father of Hallam (1871) and Lionel (1873); brother of Charles (1827) and Frederick (1825). (D.N.B.) TENNYSON (post TENNYSON-D'EYNCOURT), CHARLES. Adm. pens, (age 17) at St John's, July 6, 1801. Of Lmcs. [2nd s. of George, Esq. [M.P.], of Great Grimsby (and Mary, dau. of John Turner, of Caistor, Lines.). B. July 20, 1784- School, Louth.] Matric. 1801; B.A. 1805; M.A. 1818. Adm. at the Inner Temple, .•\pr. 18, 1801. Called to the Bar, Nov. 21, 1806. F.R.S. , 1826; F.S.A. M.P. for Grimsby, 1818-26; for Bletchingley, 1826-31; for Stamford, 1831-2; for Lambeth, 1832-52. P'.C, 1832. Clerk of the Ordnance, 1830-1. High Steward of Louth. Fought a duel with Lord Thomas Cecil, arising out of a speech made by Tennyson at the public dinner , which followed the election at Stamford, 1831; shots were exchanged, and they were taken into custody by police, but as the parties were reconciled, they were not prosecuted. Tennyson, George Clayton Of Bayons Manor and Usselby House, Lines. J. P. and D.L., for Lines. Assumed, by Royal Licence, July 27, 1835, in compliance with the testamentary direction of his father, the additional name and arms of D'Eyncourt. Married, Jan. 1, 1808, Frances Mary, only child and heiress of the Rev. John Hutton, of Morton, Lines. Died July 21, i86i. Brother of George C. (1796); father of George H. (1828); uncle of Alfred (1827) and Charles (1827). (St John's Coll. Adm., iv. 507; Burke, P. and B.; Burke, L.G.; G.E.C.; Inns of Court.) TENNYSON (post TURNER), CHARLES. Adm. pens, (age 19) at Trinity, May 4, 1827. L^nd] s. of the Rev. George Clayton (1796) [R. of Somersby, Lines.]. B. there [July 4], 1808. [School, Louth, and also educated by his father.] Matric. Lent, 1828; Bell Scholar, 1828; B.A. 1832. Ord. deacon and priest (Lincoln) 1835; C.of Tealby, Lines., 1835. V. of Grasby, 1835-79- Changed his name to Turner on succeeding to his great-uncle's, the Rev. Samuel Turner (1772), property at Grasby and Caistor, Sept. i, 1835. Married, 1836, Louisa, youngest dau. of Henry Sellwood, solicitor, of Horncastle, and sister of the wife of his brother Alfred. Author, with Alfred, of Poems by Two Brothers. Published Sonnets, 1830, 1864, 1868, 1873. His nephew Hallam (2nd Lord Tennyson) tells of his great sweetness and gentleness of character. Took to opium to relieve some nervous disorder. Died, s.p., Apr. 25, 1879, at Cheltenham. Brother of .Alfred (1827) and Frederick (1825). (Burke, L.G. and P. and B.; Crockford; D.N.B., which gives 1830 as date of change of name.) TENNYSON, CHARLES BRUCE LOCKER. Adm. at King's, a scholar from Eton, Oct. 9, 1899. 2nd s. of Lionel (1873). de- ceased, of Sheringham, Norfolk (and Eleanor Mary Bertha, dau. of Frederick Locker-Lampson). B. Nov. 8, 1879, at 4, Sussex Place, Regent's Park, London. Matric. .Michs. 1899; Scholar, 1900; B.A. (Class. Trip., Pt I, 1st Class) 1902; Whewell Scholar, 1903. CaUed to the Bar, Gray's Inn, Jan. 26, 1905. Junior Counsel to the Office of Works, 1909-11; Assistant Legal adviser at the Colonial Office, 1911-19. One of the British delegates at the New Hebrides Conference, 1914. C.M.G., 1915; Deputy Director, Federation of British Industries, 1918. Sometime Secretary, Dunlop Rubber Company, Ltd. Chairman of several committees in the Board of Trade during the War, 1939-45- Member of Council of Industrial Design. Knighted, 1945. Married, July 29, 1909, Ivy Gladys, dau. of W. J. Pretious, and had issue. Author, Cambridge from Within; Shorter Poems of Frederick Tennyson, etc. Of Shiplake Rise, Henley-on-Thames, and 10, Drayton Gardens, London, in 1952. (Eton Sch. Lists; King's Coll. Reg., 297; Law Lists; Burke, P. and B.; Who's Who.) TENNYSON, FREDERICK. Adm. pens, (age 18) at St John's, July 4, 1825. [Eldest] s. of the Rev. George Clayton (next). B. [June 5, 1807], at Louth, Lines. School, Eton. Matric. Michs., 1826; Scholar, 1826. Migrated to Trinity, May 11, 1827; Browne medal (Greek Ode), 1828. Rusticated for three terms, Dec. 1828, for refusal to perform the impositions set him for non-attendance at Chapel. Re-adm. Feb. 3, 1830; B.A. 1832. In 1833 inherited a property near Grimsby. Travelled extensively in the Ionian Islands, Sicily, and else- where. Lived for 20 years in Florence, where he was intimate with the Brownings, then at Tenby, and latteriy, from 1857, in Jersey. Married, 1839, Maria, dau. of Signor Giuliotti, Chief magistrate of Tuscany, and had issue. Became an 'Anglo- Israelite' and subsequently joined the Church of the New Jerusalem. Author, Poems, including four poems in Poems by Two Broth^s; Days and Hours; The IsUs of Greece; Daphne; Poems of the Day and Year, etc. Died, Feb. 26, 1898 at his home in Kensington. Brother of Alfred {1827) and Charles (1827)- (£to« Sch. Lists; Boose, in. 914; Burke, P. and B.; Who was Who; D.N.B.) TENNYSON, GEORGE CLAYTON. .A.dm. pens, (age 18) at St John's, Oct. 8, 1796. [Eldest] s. of George, Esq., of [Usselbv House], Lines, (and Mary, dau. of John Turner, of Caistor). B. at Market Rasen. [Bapt. there, Dec. 10, 1778.] School, HolyweU, Hunts, (private, Mr Hutchinson). Matnc. Michs. 1796; Scholar, i797; B.A. 1801; M.A. 1805; LL.D. 1813. Ord. deacon (Lincoln) May 31, 1801; priest, Dec. 19, 1802 R of Benniworth, Lines., 1802-31. R. of Somersby and Bag Enderby, 1806-31. V. of Great Grmisby, 1815-31. Visited Italy, 1801, and perhaps Russia, but his accounts of his travels are fuU of marvels.' Disinherited, apparently because hU father considered him too impractical to found a County family. Married, Aug. 6, 1805, Elizabeth dau of the Rev. Stephen Fytche (1763). V. of Louth. Died Mar. 16, 1831, aged 52, at Somersby. Father of Alfred (1827) (to whom as a father he was ' the symbol of authority, as a priest tie symbol of orthodox faith'), Charles (1S27) and the above; brother of Charles (1801). (St John's Coll. Adm., iv. 508; Foster, Index Eccles.; Burke, P. and B.; A", and Q. (7), 11. 201.) 141