Robert James Tennent
Robert James Tennent was an Irish Whig politician.
Born in Belfast and the son of Robert Tennent Tennent and Eliza née Macrone, Tennent was admitted to Trinity College Dublin in July 1820, before volunteering in the Greek War of Independence in 1824. He was then admitted at Lincoln's Inn in 1826, and called to the Irish Bar in 1833, when he was also then admitted at Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1834, he was called to the English Bar.
Tennent married Eliza, daughter of John McCracken in 1830, and they had at least one child: Robert Tennent, born in 1854.
Tennent was elected as a Whig Member of Parliament for Belfast at the 1847 general election and held the seat until 1852, when he was defeated.
