Tennent family
(per. c. 1740–1890)
- Iain F. Russell
Extract
Tennent family (per.c. 1740–1890), brewers, were descended from tenant farmers who farmed on land to the north of Glasgow. By the seventeenth century many were engaged as market gardeners, maltmen, and brewers.
Robert Tennent (1679–1757) was the eldest of seven sons of ...