Edwin Tennyson d'Eyncourt

Admiral Edwin Clayton Tennyson d'Eyncourt CB RN (4 July 1813 – 14 January 1903) was a distinguished British naval officer.

Admiral

Edwin Tennyson d'Eyncourt

CB
Birth nameEdwin Clayton Tennyson
Born(1813-07-04)4 July 1813
Died14 January 1903(1903-01-14) (aged 89)
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service/branch Royal Navy
Years of service1826–1870
RankAdmiral
Commands heldHMS Desperate
HMS Pylades
HMS Edinburgh
Battles/warsCrimean War
AwardsCompanion of the Bath
Spouse(s)
Lady Henrietta Pelham-Clinton
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(m. 1859; died 1890)​
RelationsCharles Tennyson d'Eyncourt (father)
Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt (nephew)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (cousin)

Early life

Edwin was the second son of Charles Tennyson d'Eyncourt and Frances Mary Hutton, the only child and heiress of the Rev. John Hutton, Rector of Lea. His paternal grandparents were Elizabeth (née Clayton) Tennyson and George Tennyson. Upon his grandfather's death in July 1835, his father inherited the family estates and changed his family's surname to Tennyson d'Eyncourt.[1] Through his younger brother Louis, he was uncle to Sir Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt, 1st Baronet, a naval architect who was the Navy's Director of Naval Construction.[2]

He was a first cousin of the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson. As a young man, he thoroughly embodied his family's social pretensions and their snobbish behaviour towards their poor relations, the Tennysons of Somersby;[1] but in later years the mutual dislike between him and his famous cousin thawed, and he gave Alfred advice on the law of propriety of accepting the peerage offered to him in 1883.[3]

Career

Tennyson entered naval college in 1826 and became a lieutenant in 1837.[4] He served in the South American, East Indies and China Stations during the 1840s. In 1854, he served in the Baltic campaign under Sir Charles Napier as captain of the gunboat HMS Desperate, and returned to that theatre in 1855 under Rear-Admiral Richard Saunders Dundas, as captain of the steam frigate HMS Pylades. From 1859 to 1862, he was captain of the blockship HMS Edinburgh as the guardship at Leith.[4]

He attained the rank of rear-admiral in 1866 and retired in 1870, continuing to rise to the rank of admiral by 1878. He was made a Companion of the Bath in 1873.[4] After the death of his elder brother George in 1871, he inherited the family estate known as Bayons Manor.[5] In London, they lived in the Pimlico district at 56 Warwick Square.[6]

Personal life

On 1 March 1859, Tennyson d'Eyncourt was married to Lady Henrietta Pelham-Clinton (1819–1890), the youngest surviving daughter of Henry Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle and his wife, the former Georgiana Elizabeth Mundy (daughter and heiress of Edward Miller Mundy of Shipley Hall).[7] Together, they were the parents of:[8]

  • Henrietta Charlotte Tennyson d'Eyncourt (1864–1951), who married Capt. Alfred Henry Tarleton of Breakspears, Uxbridge, in 1888. He served as Sheriff of Middlesex in 1903.

Lady Henrietta died on 19 August 1890. Tennyson d'Eyncourt died on 14 January 1903.[9]

References
  1. Mazzeno, Laurence W. (2020). Alfred Tennyson: A Companion. McFarland. p. 193. ISBN 978-1-4766-4084-6. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
  2. Lillicrap, C. S. (1951). "Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt. 1868-1951". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 7 (20): 341–354. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1951.0005. JSTOR 769023.
  3. Batchelor, John (2013). Tennyson: To Strive, to Seek, to Find. Open Road Media. p. 497. ISBN 978-1-4804-4830-8. Retrieved 21 October 2020.
  4. O'Byrne, William Richard (1849). "D'Eyncourt, Edwin Clayton Tennyson" . A Naval Biographical Dictionary . John Murray – via Wikisource.
  5. Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry. 1882. p. 1577. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
  6. Kelly's Directories Ltd. (1885). Post office directory of Lincolnshire. p. 679. Retrieved 21 October 2020.
  7. "Newcastle-under-Lyne, Duke of (GB, 1756 - 1988)". www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk. Heraldic Media Limited. Retrieved 21 October 2020.
  8. "Biography of Henry Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle under Lyne (1785-1851)". www.nottingham.ac.uk. The University of Nottingham. Retrieved 21 October 2020.
  9. Archives, The National. "D'Eyncourt, Edwin Clayton Tennyson (1813-1903) Rear Admiral". discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk. The National Archives. Retrieved 21 October 2020.
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