Hallam Tennyson is my 17th cousin 1x removed. The ancestor who connects us together is Sir Ralph De Neville of Raby Earl of Westmorland (1364 – 1425), my 13th great grandfather.

Hallam Tennyson was born at Chapel House, Twickenham, in Surrey, England, and schooled at Marlborough College and Trinity College, Cambridge. His profession aspirations concluded when his parents’ age and ill-health required him to depart Cambridge to become their personalized assistant. The concept of proceeding directly into nation-wide politics was also left behind.

It was partially for Hallam’s advantage that Alfred Tennyson acknowledged 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 dying in 1892, he handed down the title Baron Tennyson, and also the function of established biographer. His Tennyson: a Memoir was published in 1897.

The genealogical chart of the ancestor who connects both of us to Sir Ralph De Neville:

Hallam Tennyson (1852 – 1928)
17th cousin 1x removed

Alfred Tennyson , Lord (1809 – 1892)
Father of Hallam Tennyson

George Clayton Tennyson , Rev. (1778 – 1831)
Father of Alfred Tennyson , Lord

George Clayton Tennyson (1750 – 1835)
Father of George Clayton Tennyson , Rev.

Elizabeth Clayton
Mother of George Clayton Tennyson

Dorothy Hildyard (1700 – 1781)
Mother of Elizabeth Clayton

Christopher Hildyard ( – 1719)
Father of Dorothy Hildyard

Henry Hildyard (1637 – )
Father of Christopher Hildyard

Anne Leke
Mother of Henry Hildyard

Anne Cary (1585 – 1624)
Mother of Anne Leke

Katherine Knyvett (1547 – 1622)
Mother of Anne Cary

Anne Pickering (1514 – 1582)
Mother of Katherine Knyvett

Christopher Pickering , Sir (1485 – 1516)
Father of Anne Pickering

James Pickering , Sir (1444 – )
Father of Christopher Pickering , Sir

James Pickering (1419 – 1497)
Father of James Pickering , Sir

Mary Lowther (1400 – )
Mother of James Pickering

Margaret Strickland (1360 – 1443)
Mother of Mary Lowther

William Strickland (1336 – 1419)
Father of Margaret Strickland

Cicely de Welles (1315 – )
Mother of William Strickland

Maud de Clare (1285 – )
Mother of Cicely de Welles

Idonea de Clifford (1303 – 1365)
Daughter of Maud de Clare

Maud de Percy (1335 – 1378)
Daughter of Idonea de Clifford

Ralph de Neville Sir, van Raby Earl van Westmorland (1364 – 1425)
Son of Maud de Percy