Baron Glenconner, of The Glen

The Glen, Scottish Borders

The Glen, also known as Glen House, is an estate and country house in southern Scotland. It is located in the glen of the Quair Water, around south-west of Innerleithen, and south-east of Peebles, in the Scottish Borders. The estate is recorded from the 13th century, but the present Glen House...

 in the County of Peebles, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created in 1911 for Sir Edward Tennant, 2nd Baronet

Edward Tennant, 1st Baron Glenconner

Edward Priaulx Tennant, 1st Baron Glenconner , known as Sir Edward Tennant, 2nd Baronet, from 1906 to 1911, was a Scottish Liberal politician....

, who had earlier represented Salisbury

Salisbury (UK Parliament constituency)

Salisbury is a county constituency centred on the city of Salisbury in Wiltshire. It elects one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, by the first past the post voting system....

 in the House of Commons

British House of Commons

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 as a Liberal

Liberal Party (UK)

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 and also served as Lord Lieutenant of Peeblesshire

Lord Lieutenant of Peeblesshire

This is a list of people who served as Lord Lieutenant of Peeblesshire. The Lieutenancy has been replaced by the Lieutenancy of Tweeddale.*Alexander Murray, 7th Lord Elibank 12 May 1794 – 24 September 1820...

. Lord Glenconner was succeeded by his second son, the second Baron. He was succeeded in 1983 by his eldest son, the third Baron, who bought the island of Mustique

Mustique

Mustique is a small private island in the West Indies. The island is one of a group of islands called the Grenadines, most of which form part of the country of St Vincent and the Grenadines....

. the titles are held by the third Baron's grandson, the fourth Baron, who, when he succeeded in August 2010 became the next to youngest peer in the Realm. The Tennant Baronetcy, of The Glen and St Rolux, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom in 1885 for Charles Tennant

Sir Charles Tennant, 1st Baronet

Sir Charles Clow Tennant, 1st Baronet Scottish businessman, industrialist and Liberal politician.-Biography:...

, a businessman and Liberal Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 and the grandson of the chemist and industrialist Charles Tennant

Charles Tennant

Charles Tennant was a Scottish chemist and industrialist. He discovered bleaching powder and founded an industrial dynasty.- Biography:...

. Tennant was succeeded by fourth son, the aforementioned second Baronet, who was elevated to the peerage in 1911.

Several other members of the Tennant family have also gained distinction. The Liberal politician Harold Tennant

Harold Tennant

Harold John "Jack" Tennant PC was a Scottish Liberal politician. He served as Secretary for Scotland under his brother-in-law H. H...

 was a younger son of the first Baronet. Margot Tennant, wife of Prime Minister H. H. Asquith

H. H. Asquith

Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, KG, PC, KC served as the Liberal Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916...

, was the daughter of the first Baronet from his first marriage. The civil servant and politician Katharine Elliot, Baroness Elliot of Harwood, was the daughter of the first Baronet from his second marriage. The war poet Edward Wyndham Tennant

Edward Wyndham Tennant

Lt. Edward Wyndham Tennant , was an English war poet, killed at the Battle of the Somme.He was the son of Edward Tennant, who became Lord Glenconner in 1911, and Pamela Wyndham, a writer, Lady Glenconner and later wife of Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon...

 was the eldest son of the first Baron. The Hon. Stephen Tennant

Stephen Tennant

Stephen James Napier Tennant was a British aristocrat known for his decadent lifestyle. It is said, albeit apocryphally, that he spent most of his life in bed.-Early life:...

 was the fourth son of the first Baron. The author Emma Tennant

Emma Tennant

Emma Christina Tennant FRSL is a British novelist and editor. She is known for a postmodern approach to her fiction, which is often imbued with fantasy or magic. Several of her novels give a feminist or dreamlike twist to classic stories, such as Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr....

 is the daughter of the second Baron. The model Stella Tennant

Stella Tennant

Stella Tennant is a British model. The granddaughter of the late Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire and Deborah Mitford, who is the last of the noted Mitford sisters, Tennant was born in Scotland and attended St Leonards School in St Andrews. Her parents are The Hon...

 is the daughter of the Hon. Tobias William Tennant, younger son of the second Baron.

Tennant Baronets, of The Glen and St Rolux (1885)

• Sir Charles Clow Tennant, 1st Baronet
  Sir Charles Tennant, 1st Baronet
  Sir Charles Clow Tennant, 1st Baronet Scottish businessman, industrialist and Liberal politician.-Biography:...
  
   (1823–1906)
• Sir Edward Priaulx Tennant, 2nd Baronet
  Edward Tennant, 1st Baron Glenconner
  Edward Priaulx Tennant, 1st Baron Glenconner , known as Sir Edward Tennant, 2nd Baronet, from 1906 to 1911, was a Scottish Liberal politician....
  
   (1859–1920) (created Baron Glenconner in 1911)

Barons Glenconner (1911)

• Edward Priaulx Tennant, 1st Baron Glenconner
  Edward Tennant, 1st Baron Glenconner
  Edward Priaulx Tennant, 1st Baron Glenconner , known as Sir Edward Tennant, 2nd Baronet, from 1906 to 1911, was a Scottish Liberal politician....
  
   (1859–1920)
• Christopher Grey Tennant, 2nd Baron Glenconner (1899–1983)
• Colin Christopher Paget Tennant, 3rd Baron Glenconner
  Colin Tennant, 3rd Baron Glenconner
  Colin Christopher Paget Tennant, 3rd Baron Glenconner was a Scottish noble. He was the son of Christopher Grey Tennant, 2nd Baron Glenconner and Pamela Winefred Paget...
  
   (1926–2010)
• Cody Charles Edward Tennant, 4th Baron Glenconner (b. 1994)

The heir presumptive

Heir Presumptive

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is the present holder's uncle the Hon. Christopher Cary Tennant (b. 1967).