Editing Stephen Tennant (section)

== In popular culture ==
The character of Cedric Hampton in the novel ''[[Love in a Cold Climate]]'' is based on Tennant.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1991/02/03/the-outrageous-stephen-tennant/6fde8a4d-a81d-45be-8d9f-428ed69c854f/|title=The Outrageous Stephen Tennant|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|accessdate=12 May 2019}}</ref>

The character of Miles Malpractice in the novel ''[[Vile Bodies]]'' is based on Tennant.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/24-hour-arty-people-87009.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220525/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/24-hour-arty-people-87009.html |archive-date=25 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=24-hour arty people|date=14 September 2003|newspaper=[[The Independent]]|access-date=13 February 2019}}</ref>

Lord [[Sebastian Flyte]], a character in the novel ''[[Brideshead Revisited]]'', is partly based on Tennant.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/03/books/the-man-who-stayed-in-bed.html|title=The Man Who Stayed in Bed|first=John|last=Waters|date=3 February 1991|access-date=13 February 2019|website=The New York Times}}</ref>

The narrator of Shola von Reinhold's novel ''LOTE'' (2020) is obsessed ("transfixed") with Tennant, and mentions him throughout the book.[https://www.dukeupress.edu/lote]

He was played as a younger man by [[Calam Lynch]] and as an older man by [[Anton Lesser]] in the 2021 [[Terence Davies]] film ''[[Benediction (film)|Benediction]]''.