Edwin Tennyson-d'Eyncourt
Admiral Edwin Clayton Tennyson-d'Eyncourt (4 July 1813 – 14 January 1903) was a Royal Navy officer. He was the second son of Charles Tennyson and Frances Mary Hutton. In 1835 his father changed the family surname to Tennyson-d'Eyncourt after inheriting the estate. He was the uncle of naval architect Eustace Tennyson-d'Eyncourt and a first cousin of the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
He joined the Royal Navy’s college in 1826 and became a lieutenant in 1837. In the 1840s he served on the South American, East Indies and China Stations; his ship HMS Calliope helped capture Canton during the First Opium War.
During the Crimean War, in 1854 he captained the gunboat HMS Desperate under Sir Charles Napier in the Baltic. In 1855 he captained the steam frigate HMS Pylades in the Baltic under Rear-Admiral Dundas. From 1859 to 1862 he commanded the blockship HMS Edinburgh as the guardship at Leith. He was promoted to rear-admiral on 2 April 1866 and retired from active service in 1870. He later reached the rank of admiral on the retired list in March 1878 and was made a Companion of the Bath in 1873.
After his elder brother George died in 1871, he inherited the family estate Bayons Manor. He lived in London at 56 Warwick Square in Pimlico. He married Lady Henrietta Pelham-Clinton on 1 March 1859; she died in 1890. Edwin Tennyson-d'Eyncourt died at 56 Warwick Square, London, on 14 January 1903.
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