Edward Wyndham Tennant
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For other persons named Edward Tennant, see Edward Tennant (disambiguation).
Edward Wyndham Tennant (July 1, 1897 – September 22, 1916), was an English war poet, killed at the Battle of the Somme. He was the son of Edward Tennant, who became Lord Glenconner, and Pamela Wyndham, a writer, Lady Glenconner and later wife of Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon.
His younger brother was the eccentric, Stephen Tennant. He was educated at Winchester College, which he left aged 17. He joined the Grenadier Guards.
He was known to friends as Bim. He was engaged at one point to Nancy Cunard, who broke it off and married. He was buried in France next to his friend Raymond Asquith.
[edit] Works
- Worple Flit and other poems (1916)
[edit] References
- Hon. E. W. Tennant: A Memoir (1919) Pamela Glenconner
- Bim. A tribute to the honorable Edward Wyndham Tennant, Lieutenant, 4th Battalion Grenadier Guards 1897-1916 (1990) Anne Powell
