LORD GLENCONNER; WEST INDIAN MANSERVANT; TOP PEOPLE

Glenconner

Colin Christopher Paget Tennant, 3rd Baron Glenconner (1926- 1910) has left his fortune to Kent Adonai, his beloved West Indian manservant.

(Glenconner fortune left to servant)

Lord Glenconner owned Mustique.

"Rumours leaked out of decadent revels on the three-and-a-half-mile-square jewel of the archipelago of St Vincent and the Grenadines.

"Boys wearing little except coconut oil were said to have entertained guests at one party."

(Mysterious Mustique.)

Glenconner

People with villas on Mustique have included Bill Gates, Prince William, Princess Margaret, Mick Jagger, Tommy Hilfiger, Shania Twain, Bryan Adams, former UK government minister Shaun Woodward and publisher Felix Dennis.

Prince William and Kate first visited the island in 2006. (Mysterious Mustique.)

"On Lord Glenconner’s 'fantasy island' of Mustique in the Grenadines, Michael Douglas would high-dive off cliffs into the cobalt sea, and Bianca Jagger would be carried on a palanquin under mosquito-netting to a ritual enthroning.

"David Bowie was the bar-room bore, while Prince Andrew and Koo Stark played flirtatious games on the beach.

"And most particularly, in spring and autumn, Princess Margaret would take up residence, sometimes with her gardener-lover, in her Formica-filled villa by the shore." (Colin Tennant The Economist)

On Mustique, "rock stars such as Mick Jagger and David Bowie rubbed shoulders with Viscount Linley and the Earl of Lichfield and with entertainers and media folk including John Cleese and Sir David Frost." (Lord Glenconner obituary Guardian)


Henry Tennant, left, who died from AIDS

On Mustique, "one underworld character - the late John Bindon - was said to have entertained the delighted Princess Margaret with his particular party trick, which consisted of balancing an empty upside-down beer mug on a certain part of his anatomy." (Lord Glenconner dies ...)

"For Mustique’s 40th birthday party (Dress: ‘Silver and White’) 260 guests flew in, including Prince William and Kate Middleton, the fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger, socialite Jemima Khan, various Guinnesses and tycoons." (Lord Glenconner dies ...)

Glenconner eventually sold his home on Mustique, the Great House, to Christina Onassis’s third husband, former KGB agent Sergei Kauzov. (Lord Glenconner dies ...)


Charles Tennant, who died from hepatitis

Glenconner had an unusual necklace. "‘Human bone set by Bond Street jeweller Bulgari’ was how he described the necklace he was wearing, flashing me his particularly wicked smile." (Lord Glenconner.)

In 1996, Lord Glenconner's eldest son Charlie, died from hepatitis, after a long heroin addiction.

In 1990, Lord Glenconner's second son Henry, who married but later revealed he was gay, died of an Aids-related illness.

In 1987, Lord Glenconner's youngest son Christopher was in a coma for 100 days following a motor-­bike accident in Belize. (Lord Glenconner: - Express.co.uk)

The Glenconner family firm, C Tennant & Sons, was once the largest chemical company in the world and the forerunner of ICI.

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