Ernest Tennant
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Ernest Tennant OBE |
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| Born |
Ernest William Dalrymple Tennant May 5, 1887 |
| Died | July 31, 1962 (aged 75) |
| Residence | Orford House |
| Citizenship | British |
| Occupation | Merchant banker |
| Movement | Anglo-German Fellowship |
| Spouse(s) |
Eleonora Tennant Irene Adelaide Gage |
| Children | Vanessa Fiaschi Dalrymple Tennant June Tennant Julian William Fiaschi Tennant Camilla Tennant |
| Parent(s) | William Augustus Tennant and Agnes Gairdner |
| Relatives | Margot Asquith (cousin), William Yates (son-in-law) |
Ernest William Dalrymple Tennant OBE (5 May 1887 – 31 July 1962) was an English merchant banker and industrialist. An advocate of closer links between the UK and Germany, he was a prominent voice for co-operation between the countries in the years before the Second World War. He was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1919.
Tennant served in the First World War with the Intelligence Corps, rising to the rank of Captain. A merchant banker by profession, he was highly successful and developed extensive business interests in Germany. He was associated with various financial institutions, including the Anglo-Palestine Bank.
A frequent visitor to Germany, Tennant hoped to encourage greater trade links with the UK. He was initially enthusiastic about Nazism and in 1933 his article "Herr Hitler and His Policy: March 1933" was published in Douglas Francis Jerrold's The English Review, a journal that was otherwise sceptical about the Nazis despite largely admiring Italian fascism. He wrote again for the journal in January 1935, claiming in his article "Herr Hitler's Constructive Policy" that many of the stories of Nazi excesses that appeared in the British press were exaggerations and part of "a smoke-screen of anti-Hitler propaganda". In order to encourage links, he led a trade delegation to Germany on 9 May 1934. On 20 September 1934 he met Adolf Hitler as part of a further delegation to Germany, along with Robert Vansittart and other industrialists. He also accompanied Paul Rykens and Montagu Norman on trips to Germany and was, along with Lord Rothermere, Esmond Harmsworth and George Ward Price (foreign correspondent of The Daily Mail), one of four guests of honour at a banquet thrown by Hitler on 19 December 1934.
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