Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

Registered UK Charity (No. 115342)

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 165,112 pages of information and 246,466 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

C. Tennant Sons and Co

From Graces Guide
1960.

C. Tennant, Sons and Co., of Upper Thames St, London, bleaching powder manufacturers, merchants and agents.

1811 Charles Tennant and Co of St Rollox established an associated company, C. Tennant Sons and Co Ltd, as "Bleaching powder manufacturers".

1815 The description of the business was extended to "Bleaching powder manufacturers and drysalters".

1906 Death of Sir Charles Tennant

1907 Took limited company status as a private company. Sir Edward P. Tennant continued as chairman. The company continued to manage the sugar, cocoa and rubber estates, and the merchant business in Trinidad formerly belonging to the late Sir Charles Tennant, which then belonged to Sir Edward[1]

1914 Principals: Rt. Hon. Lord Glenconner, William Augustus Tennant, Charles Atkins, Edgar Bee Beck, and E. W. D. Tennant.

1930 C. Tennant Sons and Co was one of the Tennant companies consolidated under the name of the Tennant Group of companies[2].

This business has continued operating to the current day.


See Also

Loading...

Sources of Information

  1. The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Apr 24, 1907
  2. First Tennant Memorial Lecture, 1943, delivered by Brigadier General Sir William Alexander to the Glasgow section of the Society of Chemical Industry