Baron Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson,
1st Baron Tennyson

Baron Tennyson, of Aldworth in the County of Sussex and of Freshwater in the Isle of Wight, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.^[1] It was created in 1884 for the poet Alfred Tennyson. His son, the second Baron, served as Governor-General of Australia, and his grandson, the third Baron, as a captain for the English cricket team. On the death in 2006 of the latter's younger son, the fifth Baron, the line of the eldest son of the first Baron failed. The title was inherited by the late Baron's second cousin once removed, the sixth and (As of 2010) present holder of the peerage. He is the great-grandson of Hon. Lionel Tennyson, second son of the first Baron.

Another member of the Tennyson family was the naval architect Sir Eustace Tennyson-d'Eyncourt, 1st Baronet. He was the grandson of Charles Tennyson-d'Eyncourt, uncle of the first Baron Tennyson.

Barons Tennyson (1884)

• Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (1809–1892)
• Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson (1852–1928), elder son of the first baron
• Lionel Hallam Tennyson, 3rd Baron Tennyson (1889–1951), son of the 2nd baron
• Harold Christopher Tennyson, 4th Baron Tennyson (1919–1991), elder son of the 3rd baron
• Mark Aubrey Tennyson, 5th Baron Tennyson (1920–2006), younger son of the 3rd baron
• David Harold Alexander Tennyson, 6th Baron Tennyson (b. 1960), great-great-grandson of the 1st baron

The heir presumptive is the present holder's brother Alan James Drummond Tennyson (b. 1965)

See also

• Emily Tennyson, Lady Tennyson, wife of the 1st baron
• Tennyson-d'Eyncourt Baronets, of Carter's Corner Farm

Arms

Arms of Baron Tennyson

Coronet A Coronet of a Baron Crest A Dexter Arm in Armour the hand in a Gauntlet Or grasping a Broken Tilting Spear enfiled with a Garland of Laurel Escutcheon Gules a Bend nebuly Or thereon a Chaplet in the chief point Vert between three Leopards' Faces jessant de lys of the second Supporters On either side a Leopard rampant guardant Gules semy de lys and ducally crowned Or Motto Respiciens Prospiciens (Look backward and forward)

Notes

1. The London Gazette: no. 25308. p. 243. 15 January 1884.

References

• Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages