Walking like Swinburne

P.N. Furbank

  • Serious Pleasures: The Life of Stephen Tennant by Philip Hoare
    Hamish Hamilton, 463 pp, £20.00, June 1990, ISBN 0 02 411241 0

It is worth stating a few facts about Stephen Tennant, the subject of this excellent biography by Philip Hoare, in case some readers may not have heard of him. He was born in 1906, the son of a rich industrialist, Edward Tennant, who became Lord Glenconner in 1911, and of Pamela Wyndham, one of the Wyndham sisters immortalised by Sargent in his painting The Three Graces. Margot Tennant, who married Asquith, the Liberal prime minister, was his paternal aunt.

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