Ellen Elizabeth T d'Eyncourt

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• Probate: 19 Apr 1900, London; BUNBURY Ellen Elizabeth of 60 Eaton-square Middlesex widow died 12 February 1900 Probate London 19 April to Edmund Charles Tennyson d'Eyncourt esquire barrister-at-law Eustace Henry William Tennyson d'Eyncourt naval-architect and John Davies Davenport esquire barrister-at-law Effects £35176 13s.1d.

Ellen married Henry Mills Bunbury Jan-Mar 1866, St George, Hanover Square. [Group Sheet]

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• Life Story: Charles Tennyson d'Eyncourt (20 July 1784 - 21 July 1861), born Charles Tennyson, was a British politician, landowner and Member of Parliament (MP) for Stamford from 1831 to 1832 and for Lambeth from 1832 to 1852. He is also known for his social pretensions and his graceless behaviour towards his nephew, the poet Alfred Lord Tennyson. He was the younger son of George Tennyson, who bought the family seat of Beacons, in the village of Tealby, Lincolnshire, along with 2,000 acres (8 km²) of land, and came in time to own a large part of the village. George, as is well known, disinherited his elder son George Clayton Tennyson, the poet's father, at the age of 12, putting him into a career in the Church, for which he felt no calling; and bestowed all his fortune on Charles. As a result there was bad blood between the penurious Tennysons of Somersby, where George Clayton Tennyson had the living until he succumbed to drink and depression, and the opulent Tennysons of Beacons, who fancied themselves not only the wealthy but the socially superior side of the family. Old George's wife Elizabeth Clayton was supposed to have descended from the Lords of Lovel and d'Eyncourt, and also from King Edward III. A ruined castle was part of the property, and Charles wished to establish a noble lineage for himself with a title and a castle. When his father died he changed his family's name to Tennyson d'Eyncourt. Beacons was renamed Bayons, to make it sound like a Norman castle, and it was extensively enlarged and rebuilt in the style of a Gothic castellated manor-house. In public life Charles Tennyson d'Eyncourt was for many years MP for Lambeth, and was made a Privy Counsellor in 1832. Also in the 1830s, along with Augustus, Duke of Sussex and Admiral Sir Sidney Smith, he was one of the prime movers in a plan to have the Order of Knights Templar revived as a British order of chivalry. In this he failed, and he also failed during 1839-41 in an attempt to revive the d'Eyncourt peerage for himself and his heirs. In February 1829 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He published, in 1850 a book of poems, Eustace, in memory of his youngest and favourite son who had died abroad [Eustace Alexander]; it had the misfortune to appear at the same time as Tennyson's In Memoriam, and suffered greatly by the comparison. Charles thoroughly disapproved of the poetry of his nephew Alfred (Horrid rubbish indeed . . . a discredit to British taste), and the latter's appointment as Poet Laureate in the same year and subsequent offer of a baronetcy caused him outrage and chagrin. He did not live long enough to have to endure a 'Somersby Tennyson' being elevated to the peerage. (From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Tennyson_d%27Eyncourt) MA Trinity College Cambridge 1818; barrister, Inner Temple 1806; whig MP for Great Grimsby 1818-26, for Bletchingly 1826-31, and for Stamford 1831. FSA, FRS 1829, MP for Lambeth 1832-52; privy councillor 1832, deputy-lieutenant for Lincolnshire; advocated repeal of the corn and navigation laws; High Steward of Louth. (From Dictionary of National Biography, Volumes 1-20)
• Census: 1861, Bayons Manor, Tealby; The Right Hon Charles T d'Eyncourt, Head, Mar, 76, Privy Councillor, Lincolnshire Mkt Rasen Frances Mary d'Eyncourt, Wife, Mar, 73, Lincolnshire Gainsborough George Hildred d'Eyncourt, Son, Un, 51, Companion of St Michael & St George, Lincolnshire Cainby Ellen E d'Eyncourt, Daur, Un, 35, Sussex Brighton Clara M Hinde Palmer, Daur, Mar, 48, Lincolnshire Cainby John Hinde Palmer, Son in Law, Mar, 53, Queen's Counsel practicing, London + 9 servants
• Probate: 11 Oct 1861, Lincoln; The Right Honourable Charles TENNYSON D'EYNCOURT. The Will with seven codicils of the Right Honourable Charles Tennyson d'Eyncourt late of Bayons Hall and Usselby Hall both in the County of Lincoln and of Aincourt in the Department of the Seine and Oise in France one of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council deceased who died 21 July 1861 at Gloucester-place Portman-square in the County of Middlesex was proved at Lincoln by the oath of George Hildyard Tennyson d'Eyncourt of Bayons Manor and Usselby Hall aforesaid Esquire the Son and the sole Executor. Effects under £7,000.

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The residence of his son-in-law, John Hinde Palmer QC.

Charles married Frances Mary Hutton 1 Jan 1808. Frances was born 1787 or 1788, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire; died 26 Jan 1878, 131 Ebury Street, Pimlico, London. [Group Sheet]

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• Census: 1861, Bayons Manor, Tealby; The Right Hon Charles T d'Eyncourt, Head, Mar, 76, Privy Councillor, Lincolnshire Mkt Rasen Frances Mary d'Eyncourt, Wife, Mar, 73, Lincolnshire Gainsborough George Hildred d'Eyncourt, Son, Un, 51, Companion of St Michael & St George, Lincolnshire Cainby Ellen E d'Eyncourt, Daur, Un, 35, Sussex Brighton Clara M Hinde Palmer, Daur, Mar, 48, Lincolnshire Cainby John Hinde Palmer, Son in Law, Mar, 53, Queen's Counsel practicing, London + 9 servants
• Probate: 16 Feb 1878, Principal Registry; D'EYNCOURT Frances Mary Tennyson. The Will of Frances Mary Tennyson d'Eyncourt formerly of Bayons Manor in the County of Lincoln but late of 131 Ebury-street Pimlico in the County of Middlesex Widow who died 26 January 1878 at 131 Ebury-street was proved at the Principal Registry by Louis Charles Tennyson d'Eyncourt of 31 Cornwall-gardens South Kensington in the County of Middlesex Esquire the Son the sole Executor. Personal Estate under £7,000.

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• .: George Tennyson bought the family seat of Beacons, in the village of Tealby, Lincolnshire, along with 2,000 acres (8 km²) of land, and came in time to own a large part of the village. George disinherited his elder son George Clayton Tennyson at the age of 12, putting him into a career in the Church, for which he felt no calling; and bestowed all his fortune on his other son Charles.

George — Mary Turner. Mary was born 1752 or 1753; died 20 Aug 1825. [Group Sheet]

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• Career: Apothecary

Michael — Elizabeth Clayton. Elizabeth (daughter of George Clayton and Dorothy Hildyard, daughter of George Clayton and Dorothy Hildyard) was born 30 Dec 1725; was christened 19 Jan 1726, Grimsby; died 6 Jan 1755; was buried 19 Jan 1755, Hedon-in-Holderness. [Group Sheet]