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)

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

See also

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

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