Charles Tennyson (civil servant)
Sir Charles Bruce Locker Tennyson , a grandson of the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, was a civil servant, an industrialist, and an academic of his grandfather.
Tennyson was the son of the Hon. Lionel Tennyson and his wife Eleanor Bertha Mary, daughter of Frederick Locker. His father was the younger son of Alfred, Lord Tennyson. He was educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge, where he gained a first in Part I of the Law Tripos and was a Whewell Scholar in 1903. In 1909, he married Ivy Gladys OBE. They had three sons, two of whom were killed during the Second World War:
- Frederick Penrose Tennyson, known as Pen
- Charles Julian Tennyson
- Beryl Hallam Augustine Tennyson, radio producer and father of:
- * Charles Jonathan Penrose Tennyson, a physicist
- * Sita Rosalind Joanna Tennyson, social innovator and consultant