Charles Tennyson (civil servant)
Sir Charles Bruce Locker Tennyson was a grandson of the poet Alfred Lord Tennyson, 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 and King's College, Cambridge, 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. They had three sons, two of whom were killed during the Second World War:
He was awarded CMG in the 1915 New Year Honours and knighted in 1945.
