Tennent, SIR JAMES EMERSON

Tennent, SIR JAMES EMERSON, born in Belfast in 1804, studied at Dublin, and after practising at the bar was sent to parliament in 1832. He first supported Earl Grey and then Peel, and was secretary successively to the Indian Board, to the government of Ceylon, to the Poor-law Board, and to the Board of Trade. He was made a baronet on his resignation of the last post in 1867, and died in London, 6th March 1869. He is best known for his great work on Ceylon (1859) and books of travels in Greece and Belgium.