OBITUARY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 16, 16 December 1937, Page 12

OBITUARY.

MRS D. C. TENNENT. The death occurred at the home of her daughter, Mrs Hugh Boyer, “Marholm,” Waverley, Christchurch, on Friday evening last, of Mrs Douglas Cowper Tennent. Mrs Tennent was the eldest child of the late Mr and Mrs John Greenwood (Nelson) and eldest grandchild of the late Dr, and Mrs Danforfh Greenwood, and Major and Mrs C. Manners Gascoyne, both of Motueka and Nelson. The former arrived in the sa.iling 6hip Phoebe in January, 1841, and the latter, Major Gascoyne, retired from the Indian Army in 1857. Mrs Tennent’s husband, of “Westward Ho,” Marton, died in 1920. Her grandfather, Major Gascoyne, was a first cousin of Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, third Marquis of Salisbury, and father of the present holder of the title, both of whom have visited New Zealand. The late Marquis was Prime Minister of England for 13 years. Mrs Tennent’s maternal grandfather. Surgeon Donald Campbell, of the Fifth Bengal Light Cavalry, was the last child to be born in the ancient Royal Dunstaffnage Castle. Argyleshire. the hereditary seat of the Campbell Clan, in which the famous Coronation Stone was lodged for 300 years. Mrs Tennent’s familv has been noted for its longevity. Her mother died at the age of 96 years, and her grandmother at 93 years of age.

Mrs Tennent is survived bv Mrs Tan Simpson (Woodville). Mrs R. N. Todd (Invercargill), Mr Percy D. Tennent (“Dunstaffnage,” Waverley), Mrs G. Tennent (Hawora), Mrs H, Boyer (Waverley), Mr 'William C. Tennent (Hastings), Mrs E. Oliver (Pleasant Point, South Canterbury). Her two brothers are Dr. Cecil Danforth Greenwood (Sydney) and Mr Charles Greenwood (“Westmere,” Wanganui). Her aunt. Mrs Gordon Saxby (nee Greenwood), died in November of this year