Lt. Edward Wyndham Tennant, was an English war poet, killed at the Battle of the Somme. He was the son of Edward Tennant, who became Lord Glenconner in 1911, and Pamela Wyndham, a writer, Lady Glenconner and later wife of Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon. His younger brother was the eccentric, Stephen Tennant. He was educated at Winchester College, which he left aged 17. He joined the Grenadier Guards. He was known to friends and family as Bim.

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  • Lt. Edward Wyndham Tennant, was an English war poet, killed at the Battle of the Somme. He was the son of Edward Tennant, who became Lord Glenconner in 1911, and Pamela Wyndham, a writer, Lady Glenconner and later wife of Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon. His younger brother was the eccentric, Stephen Tennant. He was educated at Winchester College, which he left aged 17. He joined the Grenadier Guards. He was known to friends and family as Bim. It is unknown where this nickname derives from. There are numerous websites that claim that he was engaged at one point to Nancy Cunard, That this is untrue has been confirmed by two reliable sources: The first is Colin Tennant, 3rd Baron Glenconner, who responded to this question by letter and the other confirmation was from the well respected author Lois Gordon who wrote a book on the life of Nancy Cunard. She states in an email that in her extensive research she never came across any information of such an alliance. Bim Tennant is buried in France at Guillemont Road Communal Cemetery close to his friend Raymond Asquith who was killed the week before.
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  • Lt. Edward Wyndham Tennant, was an English war poet, killed at the Battle of the Somme. He was the son of Edward Tennant, who became Lord Glenconner in 1911, and Pamela Wyndham, a writer, Lady Glenconner and later wife of Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon. His younger brother was the eccentric, Stephen Tennant. He was educated at Winchester College, which he left aged 17. He joined the Grenadier Guards. He was known to friends and family as Bim.
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  • Edward Wyndham Tennant
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