Editing Stephen Tennant (section)

==Early life==
[[File:The Wyndham Sisters - Lady Elcho, Mrs. Adeane, and Mrs. Tenant.jpg|thumb|right|''The Wyndham Sisters,'' by [[John Singer Sargent]], 1899 ([[Metropolitan Museum]])]]

Tennant was born into British nobility, the youngest son of a [[Scottish people|Scottish]] [[peerage|peer]], [[Edward Tennant, 1st Baron Glenconner]], and the former [[Pamela Wyndham]], one of the Wyndham sisters and of [[The Souls]] clique. His mother was also a cousin of [[Lord Alfred Douglas]] (1870–1945), [[Oscar Wilde]]'s lover and a [[sonnet]]eer. On his father's death, Tennant's mother married [[Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon]], a fellow bird-lover. Tennant's eldest brother [[Edward Tennant (poet)|Edward]] – "Bim" – was killed in the [[World War I|First World War]]. His elder brother [[David Tennant (aristocrat)|David Tennant]] founded the [[Gargoyle Club]] in Soho.<ref name=Independent>{{cite news|last1=Hoare|first1=Philip|title=Michael Luke: Writer, film producer and dashing chronicler of the Gargoyle Club|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/michael-luke-6147974.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140606230015/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/michael-luke-6147974.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=6 June 2014|access-date=3 June 2014|newspaper=[[The Independent]]|date=9 April 2005}}</ref>

===Social set===
During the 1920s and 1930s, Tennant was an important member – the "Brightest", it is said – of the "[[Bright young things|Bright Young Things]]". His friends included [[Rex Whistler]], [[Cecil Beaton]], [[the Sitwells]], [[Lady Diana Cooper|Lady Diana Manners]] and [[Mitford family|the Mitford girls]]. He is widely considered to be the model for Cedric Hampton in [[Nancy Mitford]]'s novel ''[[Love in a Cold Climate]]'', one of the inspirations for Lord [[Sebastian Flyte]] in [[Evelyn Waugh]]'s ''[[Brideshead Revisited]]'', and a model for the Hon. Miles Malpractice in some of Waugh's other novels.