Harold Christopher Tennyson, 4th Baron Tennyson (25 March 191919 October 1991), was a British peer.
He was the eldest son of
Lionel Tennyson, 3rd Baron Tennyson and Hon.
Clare Tennant, his first marriage and her second. Harold was the great-grandson of poet
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (; 6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was an English poet. He was the Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign. In 1829, Tennyson was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of ...
and succeeded his father to the title in 1951.
He studied at
Eton College
Eton College ( ) is a Public school (United Kingdom), public school providing boarding school, boarding education for boys aged 13–18, in the small town of Eton, Berkshire, Eton, in Berkshire, in the United Kingdom. It has educated Prime Mini ...
and
Trinity College, Cambridge
Trinity College is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any ...
before joining the War Office in 1940. In later life he was co-founder with Sir
Charles Tennyson of the Tennyson Research Centre, Lincoln.
He died unmarried in 1991, the title passing to his brother Mark.
1919 births
1991 deaths
4
Harold
War Office personnel in World War II
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