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Stephen Tennant 1906to –1987. British socialite, notorious idler, and prominent member of the “Bright Young People.”. He was born into nobility, and his mother was in fact a cousin of Lord Alfred Douglas, Oscar Wilde’s lover. At the age of four, Tennant became entranced with a blooming pansy in the garden, and later told his father he ...
On 22 June 1927 at a christening dinner held by Sacheverell Sitwell, Stephen, aged 21, met the poet Siegfried Sassoon. “Sassoon had seen Tennant thirteen days earlier, at a dinner given by Osbert Sitwell, but had not been introduced to this extraordinary, effeminate young man.”. In the following September, Stephen invited Siegfried to come ...
After Stephen's death in 1987, the contents of the Manor were sold by Sotheby’s raising some £1.6 million. The auction catalogue 'The Contents of Wilsford Manor' can be read on Lilium's Compendium here. Wilsford Manor, the home of Stephen Tennant, the British artist, poet and socialite.
3 de feb. de 1991 · If only Stephen Tennant, always his own best audience, could have read "Serious Pleasures" before peacefully passing away (in bed, of course) in his 81st year. He probably would have fainted.
12 de may. de 2020 · In May 1933, Sassoon received a letter from Tennant’s doctor. “He says you upset him and make him feel ill,” Dr. T. A. Ross wrote, “and that he cannot see you again.”. Sassoon was stunned. By the end of the year, he had proposed to a woman, Hester Gatty. She was Tennant’s age, twenty-seven, and said to resemble him.
7 de ene. de 1992 · Stephen Tennant died intestate in 1987, aged 80, and has become a cult figure. He appears in numerous biographies about the 1920s and 1930s and he was the model for Cedric Hampton in "Love in a Cold Climate" by Nancy Mitford. In his early youth he entertained his friends at his mother, Lady Glenconner's manor house Wilsford Manor in Wiltshire.
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Stephen Tennant naît dans la noblesse britannique, le plus jeune fils d'un pair écossais, Edward Tennant, et de Pamela Wyndham, l'une des sœurs Wyndham et du groupe The Souls. Sa mère est aussi une cousine de Lord Alfred Douglas (1870-1945), l'amant d'Oscar Wilde.
