Sir Charles Bruce Locker Tennyson CMG (8 November 1879 – 22 June 1977), a grandson of the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, was a civil servant, an industrialist, and an academic of his grandfather.[1][2][3]
Tennyson was the son of the Hon. Lionel Tennyson and his wife Eleanor Bertha Mary, daughter of Frederick Locker. His father was the younger son of Alfred, Lord Tennyson.[3] He was educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge, where he gained a first in Part I of the Law Tripos and was a Whewell Scholar in 1903.[3] In 1909, he married Ivy Gladys OBE (née Pretious). They had three sons, two of whom were killed during the Second World War:
- Frederick Penrose Tennyson, known as Pen (26 August 1912 – 7 July 1941)
- Charles Julian Tennyson (7 February 1915 – 7 March 1945)[4]
- Beryl Hallam Augustine Tennyson (10 December 1920 – 21 December 2005), radio producer and father of:
- Charles Jonathan Penrose Tennyson (born 11 May 1955), a physicist
- Sita Rosalind Joanna Tennyson (born 28 April 1950), social innovator and consultant[5][6]
He was awarded CMG in the 1915 New Year Honours and knighted in 1945.
References
edit- ^ ‘TENNYSON, Sir Charles Bruce Locker’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 17 Dec 2013
- ^ Sir Charles Tennyson (Obituaries) Sir Michael Balcon. The Times Tuesday, Jun 28, 1977; pg. 18; Issue 60041; col F
- ^ a b c "Tennyson, Charles Bruce Locker (TNY899CB)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ "Tennyson, Charles Julian". Casualty Details. Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
- ^ "Sita Rosalind Joanna Tennyson". Queensland Family Trees. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
- ^ "Sita Rosalind Joanna TENNYSON". Companies House. Retrieved 25 October 2017.