Clive Malcolm Tennant (birth registered second ¼ 1956
) is an English former professional
rugby league
Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rugby or league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring 68 metres (75 yards) wide and 112 ...
footballer who played in the 1970s and
Labour Party politician who is currently serving as Mayor of
Featherstone
Featherstone is a town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the City of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, two miles south-west of Pontefract. Historic counties of England, Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, in 2011 ...
.
Playing career
Tennant played at club level for Featherstone Miners’ Welfare ARLFC, The Jubilee ARLFC (Featherstone), Traveller's Saints ARLFC (Featherstone), and
Featherstone Rovers
Featherstone Rovers are a professional rugby league club in Featherstone, West Yorkshire, England, who play in the Championship (rugby league), Championship. Featherstone is a former coal mining town with a population of around 16,000 and Rover ...
(
Heritage № 545), as a , i.e. number 2 or 5, and as of 2017 is chairman of
Featherstone Lions
Featherstone Lions are an amateur rugby league club from Featherstone, West Yorkshire who play in the National Conference League and the Yorkshire Men's League
The juniors (U7 - U18) play in the Yorkshire Junior & Youth League.
The club also ha ...
.
Tennant made his début for Featherstone Rovers on Thursday 29 December 1977.
[Bailey, Ron (20 September 2001). ''Images of Sport - Featherstone Rovers Rugby League Football Club''. The History Press. ]
Political career
Tennant is the incumbent Mayor of Featherstone for the term 2020-21, having served as Deputy Mayor for the term 2019-20.
Tennant is also a district councillor on
Wakefield Council
Wakefield Metropolitan District Council, also known as Wakefield Council, is the local authority of the City of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England. It is a metropolitan district council and provides a full range of local government services inc ...
representing
Pontefract North
Pontefract North is an electoral ward of the City of Wakefield district, used for elections to Wakefield Metropolitan District Council.
Overview
The ward is one of 21 in the Wakefield district, and has been held by Labour since the current boun ...
since 2003.
Personal life
Clive Tennant is son of the rugby league footballer
Walter Tennant, the grandson of the rugby league footballer
Buff Lord
Harold Lord/Tennant (27 July 1892 – 5 July 1985), also known by the nickname of "Buff", was an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1910s and 1920s. He played at club level for Purston White Horse ARLFC (based at ...
(Harold Tennant), and the nephew of the rugby league footballer
Alan Tennant.
References
External links
Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org->
Search for "Tennant" at rugbyleagueproject.org
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1956 births
Living people
English rugby league players
Featherstone Rovers players
Rugby league players from Pontefract
Rugby league wingers
Labour Party (UK) councillors
People from Featherstone
Rugby league players from Featherstone
Politicians from Pontefract