Clare Tennant

Clarissa Madeline Georgiana Felicite Tennant (later Bethell, Tennyson and Beck; 13 July 1896 – 3 September 1960), known as Clare Tennant, was a British socialite, prominent in early 20th century high society in London.

[1] Her paternal grandparents were Emma Winsloe and Sir Charles Tennant, 1st Baronet.

[2] In her younger years she was often seen at the Ritz Hotel in London, dining with the likes of Lady Cynthia Asquith, Osbert Sitwell, Gilbert Russell and Maud Nelke.

[3] Mary Abbott describes her as a "notorious 'bolter'",[4] while Barbara Cartland in her 1970 autobiography "We Danced All Night" called her "one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen".

[8] Before their divorce in 1928, they were the parents of three sons, including the 4th and 5th Baron Tennyson:[7] In 1928, she married James Montgomery Beck Jr., son of James M. Beck, a Republican U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania who served as U.S.