Sir Charles Clow Tennant, 1st Baronet, was a Scottish businessman, industrialist and Liberal politician.
"Glasgow" Tennant as caricatured in Vanity Fair, June 1883
Tennant's house, The Glen in the Scottish Borders.
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Charles Tennant was a Scottish chemist and industrialist. He discovered bleaching powder and founded an industrial dynasty.
Sir Charles Tennant, 1st Baronet
…Liberal politician. Tennant was the son of John Tennant (1796–1878) and Robina (née Arrol) Tennant. His grandfather was the chemist and industrialist Charles Tennant. In 1843, he entered the St Rollox chemical works, Glasgow which had been established by his grandfather Charles to produce bleaching powder and other…
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Charles Tennant's Darnley Bleach Fields c. 1800
Charles Tennant's St. Rollox Chemical Works in 1831
Statue (1838), Glasgow Necropolis