"Hallam Tennyson... author and governor-general, was born ...at Twickenham, Middlesex, England, eldest son of the poet laureate Alfred (later 1st baron) Tennyson and his wife Emily Sarah, née Sellwood. Educated at Marlborough College and at Trinity College, Cambridge, he trained as a barrister at Inner Temple but never practised. In 1883 he became a councillor of the Imperial Federation League. At Westminster Abbey on 25 June 1884 he married Audrey Georgiana Florence Boyle (d.1916). Hallam acted as his father's amanuensis and companion until he succeeded to the title on Alfred's death in 1892. He had already published a children's book, Jack and the Beanstalk (London, 1886), which was followed by the two-volume Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir by His Son (London, 1897)."
Our attention is drawn to Tennyson's second wife, May Prinsep (1853-1931). Tennyson was her second husband. She had been a "great beauty". Her family's fortune came from their activities in the East, including nutmeg plantations. Frederic Leighton painted her, as did G. F. Watts. Julia Margaret Camerson took many photographs of May Prinsep. The image we have below is a portrait done by her cousin, Val Prinsep.
"On his return to England...[Hallam Tennyson] was made a privy counsellor and in 1905 refused the governorship of Madras. He edited collections of his father's poems and published Tennyson and His Friends (London, 1911). He was president of the Royal Literary Fund and the Folk Lore Society. From 1913 he was deputy governor and steward of the Isle of Wight. On 27 July 1918 he married the widowed Mary Emily Hichens, née Prinsep. He died on 2 December 1928 at Farringford, Freshwater, Isle of Wight. His wife and one of the three sons of his first marriage survived him, the two youngest having been killed in World War I. "
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