Colin Tennant, 3rd Baron Glenconner


The Lord Glenconner

Colin Tennant in 1945
Tenure4 October 1983 – 27 August 2010
SuccessorCody Tennant, 4th Baron Glenconner (grandson of Colin Tennant)
Other titles4th Baronet Tennant
BornColin Christopher Paget Tennant
(1926-12-01)1 December 1926
Chelsea, London, England
Died27 August 2010(2010-08-27) (aged 83)
near Soufrière, Saint Lucia[1]
Spouse(s)
(m. 1956)
Issue
  • Joshua Bowler
  • Hon. Charles Edward Pevensey Tennant
  • Hon. Henry Lovell Tennant
  • Hon. Christopher Cary Tennant
  • Hon. Flora Creasy
  • Hon. Amy Tennant
Parents

Colin Christopher Paget Tennant, 3rd Baron Glenconner (1 December 1926 – 27 August 2010)[2] was a British peer, landowner and socialite. He was the son of Christopher Grey Tennant, 2nd Baron Glenconner, and Pamela Winifred Paget. He was also the nephew of Edward Tennant and Stephen Tennant, and the half-brother of the novelist Emma Tennant.

Before succeeding to the peerage in 1983, he had travelled widely, especially in India and the West Indies. He was an avid socialite and a close friend of Princess Margaret, to whom his wife, the former Lady Anne Coke, was a lady-in-waiting. In 1958, he purchased the island of Mustique in The Grenadines for £45,000.[3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference ODNB was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Barker, Dennis (2010). "Lord Glenconner obituary". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 30 July 2024.
  3. ^ "The History of Mustique". The Mustique Company. Archived from the original on 6 September 2015. Retrieved 4 August 2015.