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The second son of Charles Tennyson d"Eyncourt, and a first cousin of the poet Alfred Lord Tennyson, he entered naval college in 1826 and became a lieutenant in 1837.
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Edwin Edwin Clayton Tennyson d’Eyncourt
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He served in the South American, East Indies and China Stations during the 1840s. In 1854, he served in the Baltic campaign under Sir Charles Napier as captain of the gunboat HMS Desperate, and returned to that theatre in 1855 under Rear-Admiral Richard Saunders Dundas, as captain of the steam frigate HMS Pylades. From 1859 to 1862 he was captain of the blockship HMS Edinburgh as the guardship at Leith.
He was made a Companion of the Bath in 1873.
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British