Colin Tennant, 3rd Baron Glenconner
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The Right Honourable The Lord Glenconner |
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Lord Glenconner and Stefan Szczesny in front of Glenconner's statue at Mustique
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| Born | 1 December 1926 |
| Died | 27 August 2010 (aged 83) |
| Tenure | c. 1983 – 27 August 2010 |
| Other titles | 4th Baronet (Tennant Baronetcy) |
| Successor | Cody Tennant, 4th Baron Glenconner (grandson of Colin Tennant) |
| Spouse(s) | Lady Anne Coke |
| Issue | Hon. Charles Edward Pevensey Tennant Hon. Henry Lovell Tennant Hon. Christopher Cary Tennant Hon. Flora Tennant Hon. Amy Tennant |
| Parents | Grey Tennant, 2nd Baron Glenconner Pamela Winefred Paget |
Colin Christopher Paget Tennant, 3rd Baron Glenconner (1 December 1926 – 27 August 2010) was a British aristocrat. He was the son of Christopher Grey Tennant, 2nd Baron Glenconner, and Pamela Winefred Paget. He was also the nephew of Edward Wyndham Tennant and Stephen Tennant, and the 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 was a lady-in-waiting. In 1958, he purchased the island of Mustique in The Grenadines for £45,000.
Colin Tennant was born on 1 December 1926, the son of the second Baron Glenconner. His mother Pamela was the daughter of Sir Richard Paget, 2nd Baronet. After his parents divorced in 1935, he was educated at Eton College; but, for years, Tennant rarely saw his father. Holidays from Eton were spent with his maternal grandmother, Muriel Paget, a formidable grande dame who had diverted a train from the Crimea to Siberia in World War I to save the lives of 70 British nannies.
After finishing his schooling at Eton, Tennant enlisted in the Irish Guards, serving during the tail end of World War II and attaining the rank of lieutenant.
After the war he went up to New College, Oxford. At Oxford, he gained a reputation for being terribly kind to plain girls with nice manners and extremely waspish to pretty ones with nasty manners.
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