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'''Lionel Hallam Tennyson, 3rd Baron Tennyson''' (7 November 1889 – 6 June 1951) was known principally as a [[first-class cricket]]er who captained [[Hampshire County Cricket Club|Hampshire]] and [[England cricket team|England]]. |
'''Lionel Hallam Tennyson, 3rd Baron Tennyson''' (7 November 1889 – 6 June 1951) was known principally as a [[first-class cricket]]er who captained [[Hampshire County Cricket Club|Hampshire]] and [[England cricket team|England]]. He was the grandson of the poet [[Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson|Alfred, Lord Tennyson]]. |
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==Life== |
==Life== |
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Full name | Lionel Hallam Tennyson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Westminster, London, England | 7 November 1889|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 6 June 1951 Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex, England | (aged 61)|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm fast | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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National side | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Test debut (cap 180) | 13 December 1913 v South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Test | 16 August 1921 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1913–1935 | Hampshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 12 November 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In office 2 December 1928 – 6 June 1951 Hereditary Peerage | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Harold Tennyson, 4th Baron Tennyson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lionel Hallam Tennyson, 3rd Baron Tennyson (7 November 1889 – 6 June 1951) was known principally as a first-class cricketer who captained Hampshire and England. He was the grandson of the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
Life
He was born in 1889. His father had recently become Governor (later the Governor-General of Australia). He and his wife Audrey Tennyson and there sons were in Australia from 1899.[2] He succeeded his father, Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, to the title in 1928, having been known before that as Hon. Lionel Tennyson.[a]
As a schoolboy at Eton College, Tennyson was a fast bowler, but by the time he took up regular first-class cricket with Hampshire in 1913, he bowled very rarely. He was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1914.
During World War I he served with The Rifle Brigade in France. He was mentioned in dispatches twice and three times wounded. His two younger brothers were killed in the war.
Tennyson played nine Test matches for England, five of them on the tour of South Africa under Johnny Douglas in 1913/14. In 1921, England having lost six Test matches in succession to the Australians under Warwick Armstrong, Tennyson was recalled to the side for the second Test at Lord's, and though the game was again lost, he scored an undefeated 74 in the second innings against Jack Gregory and Ted McDonald at their fastest. That innings led him to be appointed captain for the three remaining matches of the series, succeeding Douglas. The next game was lost; the final two matches were left drawn. At Headingley in the first of these three games as captain, Tennyson split his hand while fielding in the Australians' first innings but, patched up with what Wisden called a "basket guard", he made 63 and 36. He led several non-Test match tours overseas, to India, South Africa and the West Indies.
Tennyson was captain of Hampshire from 1919 to 1932. He was in charge of the side in the remarkable match against Warwickshire in 1922, when Hampshire were bowled out for 15 runs in their first innings and, having been forced to follow on, then scored 521 in the second innings and won the match by 155 runs.[4]
In 1933 he published his autobiography, From Verse to Worse. Returning from his second war-wound to the Western Front he records: "I have never liked 'travelling light', and so, though the amount of kit I arrived with may, in fact, have aroused a certain amount of astonishment, I was quickly forgiven by my commanding officer as well as by everyone else, when they found out that it included, amongst other things, a case of champagne."[5] He published a second volume of memoirs, Sticky Wickets, in 1950.
He was appointed Honorary Colonel of 51st (London) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (a Territorial Army unit based in Chelsea, London) on 9 August 1931 and held the position until 1947.[6][7]
He married Hon. Clare Tennant in 1918. They had three sons before they divorced in 1928:
- Harold Tennyson, 4th Baron Tennyson (1919–1991), died unmarried
- Mark Tennyson, 5th Baron Tennyson (1920–2006), married Deline Celeste Budler but died without issue
- Lionel Tennyson (1925–1925), died in infancy
He was later married to Carroll Donner (née Elting) from 1934 until their divorce in 1943.[8]
Notes
References
- ^ Montague-Smith, P.W. (ed.), Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage, Kelly's Directories Ltd, Kingston-upon-Thames, 1968, p.1091
- ^ Howell, P. A., "Tennyson, Audrey Georgiana Florence (1854–1916)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 8 September 2023
- ^ "Tennyson, Lionel (TNY873L)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ "Warwickshire v Hampshire 1922". CricketArchive. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
- ^ Lionel Tennyson, From Verse to Worse, Cassell & Co, London, 1933, p. 168.
- ^ Monthly Army List 1931–39.
- ^ Burke's Peerage.
- ^ "LORD TENNYSON WEDS MRS. CARROLL DONNER; Gardens of California Estate the Setting in Which Poet's Grandson Takes Bride". The New York Times. 15 April 1934. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
External links
- Lionel Tennyson, 3rd Baron Tennyson at ESPNcricinfo
- From Verse To Worse by Lionel Tennyson (1933) (digitised version)
- Brief footage of Tennyson from British Pathe (at 3.55, 4.14 and 7.00)
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