David Tennyson, 6th Baron Tennyson
David Harold Alexander Tennyson, 6th Baron Tennyson is the son of James Alfred Tennyson and Beatrice Aventon Young. He succeeded to the title of 6th Baron Tennyson on 5 July 2006.
The title Baron Tennyson, of Aldworth in the County of Sussex and of Freshwater in the Isle of Wight, was created in 1884 for the famous poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson. His son Hallam, the second Baron, served as Governor-General of Australia, and his grandson, the third Baron, as a captain for the English national cricket squad. On the death in 2006 of the latter's younger son, the fifth Baron, the line of the eldest son of the first Baron failed. The title was then inherited by the late Baron's second cousin once removed, the sixth and present holder of the peerage. He is the great-grandson of Lionel Tennyson, second son of the first Baron.
