Baron Tennyson, of Aldworth in the County of Sussex and of Freshwater in the Isle of Wight, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Peerage of the United Kingdom

The Peerage of the United Kingdom comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Act of Union in 1801, when it replaced the Peerage of Great Britain...

. It was created in 1884 for the poet Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular poets in the English language....

. His son, the second Baron, served as Governor-General of Australia

Governor-General of Australia

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, and his grandson, the third Baron, as a captain

Captain (cricket)

The captain of a cricket team often referred to as the skipper is the appointed leader, having several additional roles and responsibilities over and above those of a regular player...

 for the English national cricket squad

English cricket team

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. On the death in 2006 of the latter's younger son, the fifth Baron, the line of the eldest son of the first Baron failed. The title was inherited by the late Baron's second cousin once removed, the sixth and present holder of the peerage. He is the great-grandson of Hon. Lionel Tennyson, second son of the first Baron.

Another member of the Tennyson family was the naval architect Sir Eustace Tennyson-d'Eyncourt, 1st Baronet. He was the grandson of Charles Tennyson-d'Eyncourt, uncle of the first Baron Tennyson.

Barons Tennyson (1884)

• Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
  Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
  Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular poets in the English language....
  
   (1809–1892)
• Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson
  Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson
  Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, GCMG, PC , the second Governor-General of Australia, was born at Chapel House, Twickenham, in Surrey, England. Named after his father's late friend Arthur Hallam, he was the elder son of Alfred Tennyson, the most popular and prominent poet of late Victorian...
  
   (1852–1928)
• Lionel Hallam Tennyson, 3rd Baron Tennyson
  Lionel Tennyson, 3rd Baron Tennyson
  Lionel Hallam Tennyson, 3rd Baron Tennyson was known principally as a cricketer who captained Hampshire and England...
  
   (1889–1951)
• Harold Christopher Tennyson, 4th Baron Tennyson (1919–1991)
• Mark Aubrey Tennyson, 5th Baron Tennyson
  Mark Tennyson, 5th Baron Tennyson
  Mark Aubrey Tennyson, 5th Baron Tennyson DSC was a British peer. He was the second son of Lionel Tennyson, 3rd Baron Tennyson and the Hon. Clarissa Madeline Georgiana Felicite Tennant...
  
   (1920–2006)
• David Harold Alexander Tennyson, 6th Baron Tennyson (b. 1960)

The heir presumptive

Heir Presumptive

An heir presumptive or heiress presumptive is the person provisionally scheduled to inherit a throne, peerage, or other hereditary honour, but whose position can be displaced by the birth of an heir or heiress apparent or of a new heir presumptive with a better claim to the position in question...

 is the present holder's brother Alan James Drummond Tennyson (b. 1965)

See also

• Emily Tennyson, Baroness Tennyson
• Tennyson-d'Eyncourt Baronets, of Carter's Corner Farm