Hallam Tennyson
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The Right Honourable The Lord Tennyson GCMG, PC |
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| 2nd Governor-General of Australia | |
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In office 9 January 1903 – 21 January 1904 |
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| Monarch | Edward VII |
| Prime Minister |
Sir Edmund Barton (1903) Alfred Deakin (1903–04) |
| Preceded by | The Marquess of Linlithgow |
| Succeeded by | The Lord Northcote |
| 14th Governor of South Australia | |
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In office 10 April 1899 – 17 July 1902 |
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| Monarch |
Victoria (1899–01) Edward VII (1901–02) |
| Premier |
Charles Kingston (1899) Vaiben Louis Solomon (1899) Frederick Holder (1899–01) John Jenkins (1901–02) |
| Preceded by | Sir Thomas Buxton |
| Succeeded by | Sir George Le Hunte |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
11 August 1852 Twickenham, Surrey |
| Died | 2 December 1928 (aged 76) Freshwater, Isle of Wight |
| Parents |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Emily Tennyson |
Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson GCMG, PC (11 August 1852 – 2 December 1928) was a British peer and the second Governor-General of Australia. He was the elder son of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, the most popular and prominent poet of late Victorian England, and was named after his father's late friend Arthur Hallam.
Hallam Tennyson was born at Chapel House, Twickenham, in Surrey, England, and educated at Marlborough College and Trinity College, Cambridge. His career aspirations ended when his parents' age and ill-health obliged him to leave Cambridge to become their personal secretary. The idea of going into politics was also abandoned.
It was partly for Hallam's benefit that Alfred Tennyson accepted a peerage in 1884, the year Hallam married Audrey Boyle (after being disappointed in his love for Mary Gladstone, daughter of William Ewart Gladstone). On his father's death in 1892, he inherited the title Baron Tennyson, and also the role of official biographer. His Tennyson: a Memoir was published in 1897.
Like his famous father, Tennyson was an ardent imperialist, and in 1883 he had become a council member of the Imperial Federation League, a lobby group set up to support the imperialist ideas of the Colonial Secretary, Joseph Chamberlain. It was this connection, as well as the Tennyson name, that led Chamberlain to offer Tennyson the position of Governor of South Australia in 1899. He was still in this position when the Governor-General of Australia, the Earl of Hopetoun, resigned suddenly in May 1902.
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