Julian Tennyson

Who was Julian Tennyson?

Charles Julian Tennyson was an English writer and historian most famous for his writings on his home county of Suffolk.

He was the second son of Sir Charles Tennyson and his wife Lady Ivy Gladys, and the great-grandson of Alfred Tennyson, the Victorian poet laureate. Tennyson is most famous for his 1939 book Suffolk Scene, which documents the author’s travels and experiences in Suffolk during the 1930s.

Tennyson enlisted in the British Army with the Irish Rifles at the outbreak of World War II in 1939 and was killed by flying shrapnel in Burma during the Battle of Arakan in 1945 at the age of 30, being Captain of the 6th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.

He was married Yvonne Cornu, daughter of Colonel R B le Cornu, on 29 September 1937. They had twins Simon and Penelope, both born on 4 December 1939.