Charles Tennyson (civil servant)

Sir Charles Bruce Locker Tennyson CMG (8 November 1879 – 22 June 1977), a grandson of the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, was a civil servant, an industrialist, and an academic of his grandfather.

Lionel Tennyson and his wife Eleanor Bertha Mary, daughter of Frederick Locker.

His father was the younger son of Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

[3] In 1909, he married Ivy Gladys OBE (née Pretious).

They had three sons, two of whom were killed during the Second World War: He was awarded CMG in the 1915 New Year Honours and knighted in 1945.