Rev. George Clayton Tennyson , Rector of Somersby, Lincs. Venn's entry reads: TENNYSON, GEORGE CLAYTON College: ST JOHN'S Entered: Michs. 1796 Born: Died: Mar. 16, 1831 Adm. pens. (age 18) at ST JOHN'S, Oct. 8, 1796. (Eldest) s. of George, Esq., of (Usselby House), Lincs. (and Mary, dau. of John Turner, of Caistor). B. at Market Rasen. (Bapt. there, Dec. 10, 1778.) School, Holywell, Hunts. (private, Mr Hutchinson). Matric. Michs. 1796; Scholar, 1797; B.A. 1801; M.A. 1805; LL.D. 1813. Ord. deacon (Lincoln) May 31, 1801; priest, Dec. 19, 1802. R. of Benniworth, Lincs., 1802-31. R. of Somersby and Bag Enderby, 1806-31. V. of Great Grimsby, 1815-31. Visited Italy, 1801, and perhaps Russia, `but his accounts of his travels are full of marvels.' Disinherited, apparently because his father considered him too impractical to found a County family. Married, Aug. 6, 1805, Elizabeth, dau. of the Rev. Stephen Fytche (1763), V. of Louth. Died Mar. 16, 1831, aged 52, at Somersby. Father of Alfred (1827) (to whom as a father he was `the symbol of authority, as a priest the symbol of orthodox faith'), Charles (1827) and the above; brother of Charles (1801). (St John's Coll. Adm., IV. 508; Foster, IndexEccles.; Burke, P. and B.; N. and Q. (7), II. 201.)
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