Robert Tennent (photographer)

Robert Tennent FRSE (1815 - 15 December 1890) was an early Scottish photographer and major landowner in Australia.

He was born in Edinburgh in 1813 the son of Margaret Rodger Lyon (1794-1867) and Patrick Tennant WS (1782-1872), living at 107 George Street.

Here together with Charles Hugh Lyon (probably his cousin) he acquired 30,000 acres of land near Gnarkeet under squatters rights from 1844 to 1853.

[2][4] In 1873 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his proposer being John Hutton Balfour.

He is buried with his daughter Charlotte Maud Tennent in Dean Cemetery in western Edinburgh.