Sir Charles Bruce Locker Tennyson (8 November 1879 – 22 June 1977) was a grandson of the 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 his ...

, a civil servant, an industrialist, and an academic of his grandfather. Tennyson was the son of the Hon. Lionel Tennyson and his wife Eleanor Bertha Mary, daughter of Frederick Locker. His father was the younger son of Alfred, Lord Tennyson. He was educated at

Eton College Eton College () is a public school in Eton, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1440 by Henry VI under the name ''Kynge's College of Our Ladye of Eton besyde Windesore'',Nevill, p. 3 ff. intended as a sister institution to King's College, ...

and

King's College, Cambridge King's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Formally The King's College of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge, the college lies beside the River Cam and faces out onto King's Parade in the centre of the cit ...

, where he gained a first in Part I of the Law Tripos and was a Whewell Scholar in 1903. In 1909, he married Ivy Gladys OBE (née Pretious). They had three sons, two of whom were killed during the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposi ...

: * Frederick Penrose Tennyson, known as Pen (26 August 1912 – 7 July 1941) * Charles Julian Tennyson (7 February 1915 – 7 March 1945) * Beryl Hallam Augustine Tennyson (10 December 1920 – 21 December 2005), radio producer and father of: ** Charles Jonathan Penrose Tennyson (born 11 May 1955), a physicist ** Sita Rosalind Joanna Tennyson (born 28 April 1950), social innovator and consultant He was awarded CMG in the

1915 New Year Honours The New Year Honours 1915 were appointments by King George V to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by members of the British Empire. They were announced on 1 January 1915. Order of the Bath Knight Commander (KCB) ;C ...

and knighted in 1945.

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