George Tennyson

George Tennyson (c. 1749/50-4 July 1835) was the grandfather of poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson. He was a member of the Lincolnshire gentry as the owner of Bayons Manor and Usselby Hall. See note below.

Parents: Michael Tennyson and Elizabeth Clayton.

Married 1: Mary Turner, daughter of John Turner, in 1775.

Children:

1. Reverend George Clayton Tennyson+ b. 1781, d. 1832

2. Rt. Hon. Charles Tennyson-D'Eyncourt+ b. 20 Jul 1784, d. 21 Jul 1861

Weblinks:

http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/tennyson/tennybio.html

http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/tennyson/family.html

http://www.thepeerage.com/p4979.htm#i49790

Note:

The poet's grandfather had violated tradition by making his younger son, Charles, his heir, and arranging for the poet's father to enter the ministry. (See the Tennyson Family Tree.) The contrast of his own family's relatively straitened circumstances to the great wealth of his aunt Elizabeth Russell and uncle Charles Tennyson (who lived in castles!) made Tennyson feel particularly impoverished and led him to worry about money all his life.

Citations

  1. [S22] Sir Bernard Burke, C.B. LL.D., A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, new edition (1883; reprint, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1978), page 319. Hereinafter cited as Burkes Extinct Peerage.