Harold Tennyson, 4th Baron Tennyson explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Right Honourable
The Lord Tennyson
Office:Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Term Start:6 June 1961
Term End:19 October 1991
Hereditary Peerage
Predecessor:Lionel Tennyson, 3rd Baron Tennyson
Successor:Mark Tennyson, 5th Baron Tennyson
Birth Date:25 March 1919
Birth Name:Hon. Harold Christopher Tennyson
Parents:
Alma Mater:Eton College
Trinity College, Cambridge

Harold Christopher Tennyson, 4th Baron Tennyson (25 March 191919 October 1991), was a British peer.

He was the eldest son of Lionel Tennyson, 3rd Baron Tennyson and Hon. Clare Tennant, his first marriage and her second. Harold was the great-grandson of poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson and succeeded his father to the title in 1951.

He studied at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge before joining the War Office in 1940. In later life he was co-founder with Sir Charles Tennyson of the Tennyson Research Centre, Lincoln.

He died unmarried in 1991, the title passing to his brother Mark.