 1784 - 1861 (~ 77 years)
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| Name |
Charles Tennyson (later d'Eyncourt) |
| Prefix |
Right Hon. |
| Suffix |
FRS, PC, MP |
| Christened |
20 Jul 1784 |
Market Rasen  |
| Gender |
Male |
| 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 |
| Died |
21 Jul 1861 |
8A Gloucester Place, Portman Square, London |
- The residence of his son-in-law, John Hinde Palmer QC.
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| 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. |
| Person ID |
I13007 |
Simpson & Elder |
| Last Modified |
14 Jul 2013 |
| Family |
Frances Mary Hutton, b. 1787 or 1788, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire , d. 26 Jan 1878, 131 Ebury Street, Pimlico, London (Age 90 years) |
| Married |
1 Jan 1808 |
| Children |
| | 1. George Hildeyard Tennyson d'Eyncourt, b. 1809 or 1810, d. 23 Feb 1871, Bayons Manor, Lincolnshire (Age 61 years) |
| | 2. Clara Maria Tennyson d'Eyncourt, b. 1813, d. 4 Oct 1863, Aix-la-Chapelle, Prussia (Age 50 years) |
| + | 3. Admiral Edwin Clayton Tennyson d'Eyncourt, CB RN, b. 4 Jul 1813, d. 14 Jan 1903 (Age 89 years) |
| + | 4. Louis Charles Tennyson d'Eyncourt, b. 23 Jul 1815, Caenby Hall, Lincolnshire , d. 11 Dec 1896 (Age 81 years) |
| | 5. Captain Eustace Alexander Tennyson d'Eyncourt, c. 16 Apr 1816, St Giles in the Fields, Holborn , d. 9 Mar 1842, Barbados Islands, West Indies (Age ~ 25 years) |
| | 6. Ellen Elizabeth T d'Eyncourt, b. 1825 or 1826, Brighton, Sussex , d. 12 Feb 1900 (Age 74 years) |
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| Last Modified |
7 Jun 2013 |
| Family ID |
F586 |
Group Sheet |
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| Photos |
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 | Bayons Manor, Lincolnshire
The country seat of the Tennyson family.
Bayons Manor at Tealby, Lincolnshire, was owned by Charles Tennyson d'Eyncourt, the uncle of Alfred Lord Tennyson, the Poet Laureate. In 1944 the estate was purchased by local farmer Reginald Drakes, primarily for the farmland. The house had become derelict and in 1964 it was demolished. The yellow Lincolnshire stone from which it was built was used to make a road on the estate. Elton John's songwriter Bernie Taupin lived in a nearby cottage in Tealby and this was the origin of the song "Yellow Brick Road" - it was nothing to do with the Wizard of Oz.
More info at http://www.drakesfamily2.webspace.virginmedia.com/id42.htm |
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