Robert Tennant

Robert Tennant (1828 – 5 March 1900) of Chapel House in the parish of Conistone (now Conistone with Kilnsey, Burnsall), Yorkshire, England, was the Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Leeds, Yorkshire, from 1874 to 1880. by his wife Miss Barcroft, a daughter of John Barcroft of Foulridge, Lancashire, Serving as a justice of the peace as well as a Captain in the 3rd West Yorkshire Militia, John Tennant Stansfield inherited the Chapel House estate from his childless great-uncle Robert Tennant (born 1725), and adopted the surname and arms of Tennant in compliance with the bequest. Chapel House, on the site of an ancient chapel belonging to Kilnsey Grange, a possession of Fountains Abbey, commemorates the family. His mother (his father's second wife) was Anne Catherine Shaw, a daughter of James Shaw of Otley.

Inheritance In 1894 he inherited Chapel House from his childless elder half-brother John Robert Tennant (1817–1894), JP, DL, Capt. 3rd West Yorkshire Militia, also of Kildwick Hall, whose diaries 1847–73 survive in the Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society.

Career He was educated at the Leeds Grammar School for the legal profession, but chose a career in business, and became a junior partner in a firm of flax spinners in Leeds. For many years he was closely identified with the commercial and industrial life of West Riding of Yorkshire, and he owned extensive estates. He was chairman of several coal and iron companies, and Director of the Great Northern Railway. as follows: John Robert Tennant (1851–1918), eldest son and heir, Capt. 2nd West Yorkshire Militia, who in 1900 Kirkstall, Leeds, proprietor of the Joppa Tannery in Kirkstall, whose sister Frances Claire Nickols was the wife of Joseph Watson, 1st Baron Manton. Gilbert Edward Tennant (1863–1921), 6th son Philip Charles Tennant (1867–1936), 7th son, of Hatfield Priory, lord of the manor of Hatfield Peverel (1817–1889) of Bradford, Yorks and of Grove Hill, Twyford, Berkshire, a cloth merchant, Consul of the Imperial German Consulate in Bradford and a naturalised British subject since 1864. Marian "Isabel" Catherine Tennant (1854–1928), married Charles Henry Cumberland of Walton Place, Surrey. Laura Francis Harriette Tennant (1855–1933); Hilda Margaret Tennant (1859–1928), who married Arthur Janion Edwards, JP, Barrister of Lincoln's Inn, of Beech Hill Park, Waltham Abbey, Essex, and was the mother of the polo player Captain Arthur Noel Edwards (1883–1915) and of the cricketer Guy Janion Edwards (1881–1962); Eleanora Hope Shaw Tennant (1865–1956) of Spofforth Grange, Harrogate, Yorks.

Death and burial He died at Roffey in Sussex in his 72nd year, on 5 March 1900. His white marble inscribed memorial tablet survives in St Mary's Church, Conistone.