Charles Tennyson (civil servant)

Sir Charles Bruce Locker Tennyson CMG (8 November 1879 – 22 June 1977), a grandson of the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, was a civil servant, an industrialist, and an academic of his grandfather.^[1][2][3]

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.^[3] He was educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge, where he gained a first in Part I of the Law Tripos and was a Whewell Scholar in 1903.^[3] In 1909, he married Ivy Gladys OBE (née Pretious). They had three sons, two of whom were killed during the Second World War:

• Frederick Penrose Tennyson, known as Pen (26 August 1912 – 7 July 1941)
• Charles Julian Tennyson (7 February 1915 – 7 March 1945)^[4]
• 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^[5][6]

He was awarded CMG in the 1915 New Year Honours and knighted in 1945.