Background
The eldest surviving son of Sir Charles Tennant, 1st Baronet, he was educated at Eton College and at Trinity College, Cambridge.
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Edward Priaulx Tennant
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Eton College; Trinity College.
Career
Tennant travelled extensively in Africa, India, and America, and was Assistant Private Secretary to Sir George Otto Trevelyan, Secretary for Scotland, from 1892-1895. He was unsuccessful parliamentary candidate for Partick in 1892 and for Peebles and Selkirk in 1900. He succeeded his father to the baronetcy in 1906, and in 1911 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Glenconner, of The Glen in the County of Peebles.
Harold Tennant, brother
Margot (Tennant) Asquith, sister, wife of Prime Minister H. H. Asquith
Edward Wyndham Tennant, son, war poet
Stephen Tennant, son
Clare Tennant, daughter
Colin Tennant, 3rd Baron Glenconner, grandson, developer of the island of Mustique
Emma Tennant, granddaughter
Pauline Tennant, granddaughter
Elizabeth Bibesco, niece
Anthony Asquith, nephew.
Achievements
Membership
28th United Kingdom Parliament]
He was elected as Liberal Member of Parliament for Salisbury at the 1906 general election, holding the seat until the 1910 general election.
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Nationality
United Kingdom