Gervais Tennyson-d'Eyncourt
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Sir Eustace Gervais Tennyson-d'Eyncourt, 2nd Baronet (19 January 1902 – 21 November 1971) was a British baronet.
Educated at Eton College, in 1951 he succeeded his father, Sir Eustace Tennyson-d'Eyncourt, 1st Baronet (1868-1951). He was also a distant cousin of the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 1956 and was Prime Warden of the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers during the 1960s.
On 1 June 1926, he married Pamela Gladstone, the younger daughter of William Buckley Gladstone, of Moor Town House, Ringwood, Hampshire, at St Margaret's, Westminster. See wedding photograph. Their daughter Philippa married Nigel Nicolson.
He was succeeded by his son, Sir (John) Jeremy Eustace Tennyson-d'Eyncourt, 3rd Baronet (1927-1988).
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