Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson

Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson ( born August 11, 1852 in Twickenham, England; † December 2, 1928 in Freshwater, England) was the second Governor-General of Australia Governor of South Australia.

Life

Hallam Tennyson was born on August 11, 1852 in the Chapel House in Twickenham, near London. He was the eldest son of Alfred Tennyson, a poet of the Victorian era. Hallam attended Marlborough College and Trinity College, Cambridge. He did not complete law school, as he had to support his parents because of their poor physical condition.

1884 his father was appointed to the peer. In the same year Tennyson Audrey Boyle married. Shortly before had a relationship with Mary Gladstone, a daughter of William Ewart Gladstone, failed. After the death of his father in 1892 he inherited the title of Baron Tennyson. Tennyson's book Tennyson: a Memoir, a biography of his father, he published 1897.

Like his father, Tennyson was an enthusiastic supporter of British imperialism. It was 1883, a council member of Imperial Federation League, a lobby group that supported the right-wing policies of the Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain. Chamberlain offered him in January 1899 to the position as Governor of South Australia. After much consideration Tennyson finally accepted and came in April of the same year in Adelaide. Tennyson was concerned that the post would be abolished in the wake of Australia's independence, or at least placed under a Governor-General. He was right, because with the formation of the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901, the Office of the Governor General of Australia was established and John Hope its first officers.

Already in July 1902, however, Hope came surprisingly back in dispute over salary payments. Tennyson took office, first temporarily and was formally appointed in January 1903 to the Governor-General. However, he limited his term of office from the outset to one year. Unlike his predecessors, he was popular with the population. The two prime ministers during his tenure, Alfred Deakin and Edmund Barton, his relationship was strained, however, as they faced him suspiciously as a representative of the former colonial power. For this purpose, Tennyson contributed with his behavior by, for example, stayed away from the independence celebrations in Australia.

In January 1904 Tennyson left after the end of his tenure, Australia and spent the rest of his life on the Isle of Wight, of which he was deputy governor in 1913. Tennyson died in December 1928 in the family home Farringford House in Freshwater. The title passed to his son Lionel over, which was known as the captain of the England Cricket Team.

Awards

• Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George