Sir Charles Tennant, 1st Baronet

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Sir Charles Clow Tennant, 1st Baronet (November 4, 1823-June 4, 1906) Scottish businessman, industrialist and Liberal politician.

Tennant was the son of John Tennant (1796-1878) and Robina Arrol. His grandfather was the chemist and industrialist Charles Tennant. He was President of the United Alkali Company and Chairman of the Union Bank of Scotland. Tennant also sat as Member of Parliament for Glasgow from 1879 to 1880 and for Peebles and Selkirk from 1880 to 1886. He unsuccessfully contested Glasgow Partick in 1890. He was also a Trustee of the National Gallery and was appointed a Member of the Tariff Commission in 1904. In 1885 he was created a Baronet.

Tennant married, firstly, Emma Winsloe, daughter of Richard Winsloe, in 1849. After his first wife's death in 1895 he married, secondly, Marguerite Agaranthe Miles, daughter of Charles William Miles, in 1898. His son from his first marriage, Harold Tennant, became a Liberal politician, while his daughter from his first marriage, Margot, was the second wife of Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith and a well-known socialite and author. Tennant died in June 1906 in Broadoaks, Byfleet, Surrey, aged 82, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son Edward, who was raised to the peerage as Baron Glenconner in 1911.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by George Anderson Charles Cameron Alexander Whitelaw	Member of Parliament for Glasgow with George Anderson 1879–1880 Charles Cameron 1879–1880 1879–1880	Succeeded by George Anderson Charles Cameron Robert Tweedie Middleton
Preceded by Sir Graham Graham-Montgomery	Member of Parliament for Peebles and Selkirk 1880–1886	Succeeded by Sir Walter Thorburn
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by New creation	Tennant Baronets 1885–1906	Succeeded by Edward Tennant

[edit] References

Broken Blood - The Rise and Fall of the Tennant family by Simon Blow publisher: London, Faber, 1987 ISBN 0-571-13374-6 OCLC 16470862
Tennant's Stalk: the story of the Tennants of the Glen by Nancy Dugdale publisher: London, Macmillan, 1973 ISBN 0333138201 OCLC 2736092
Who Was Who
Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
www.thepeerage.com

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