Background
TENNANT, Harold John was born on November 18, 1865 in The Glen, Innerleithen. Youngest son of Sir Charles Tennant, 1st Baronet.
TENNANT, Harold John was born on November 18, 1865 in The Glen, Innerleithen. Youngest son of Sir Charles Tennant, 1st Baronet.
Eton; Trinity College, Cambridge (Bachelor of Arts).
Private Secretary to Right Honourable H. H. Asquith, 1892-1895. Secretary to departmental Committee of Home Office on various Lead Industries, 1893. Chairman of departmental Committee on Miscellaneous Dangerous Trades, 1895-1899.
Chairman of Committee on the Scientific and Statistical Investigations in relation to the Fishing Industry of the United Kingdom. Recrcatiom: shooting, fishing, golf, tennis, lawn-tennis. Parliamentary Secretary Board of Trade since 1909; Member of Parliament (Liberal) Berwickshire since 1894.
Liberal.
Clubs : Brooks’s, National Liberal, Eighty, Queen’s; New, Scottish Liberal, Edinburgh : Liberal, Glasgow.