Sir Eustace Gervais Tennyson d'Eyncourt, 2nd Baronet

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(19 January 1902 – 21 November 1971).

Early life

Tennyson d'Eyncourt was the son of

Sir Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt, 1st Baronet Sir Eustace Henry William Tennyson d'Eyncourt, 1st Baronet (1 April 1868 – 1 February 1951) was a British naval architect and engineer. As Director of Naval Construction for the Royal Navy, 1912–1924, he was responsible for the design ...

, and of his wife Janet (died 1909), the elder daughter of Mathew Finlay, of Langside,

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, and the widow of John Burns. He was educated at

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Career

In 1951 he succeeded his father in the baronetcy. He became a Fellow of the

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in 1956 and was Prime Warden of the

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, 1960–1961, later President of the Shellfish Association of Great Britain, 1971. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the Standing Council of the Baronetage, of the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers, the Royal Institution, the Pilgrims, and the Tennyson Society.

Family

Tennyson d'Eyncourt married Pamela Gladstone, the younger daughter of William Buckley Gladstone, of Moor Town House, Ringwood, Hampshire, at St Margaret's, Westminster, on 1 June 1926, and they had two sons and one daughter, Philippa, who married

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. He married secondly, in 1964, Vinnie Lorraine, the widow of Robert J. O'Donnell and younger daughter of Andrew Pearson, of

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. Tennyson d'Eyncourt was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son, Jeremy.

References

TENNYSON D'EYNCOURT, Sir (Eustace) Gervais
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