Death
Hugh Tennent died, unmarried and childless, in 1890 at age twenty-seven.
Above his share of the firm, his personal estate was worth at least a quarter of a million pounds. A second Tennent trust was set up to run the business, but Hugh Tennent was the last member of the family in direct control of Tennent’s.
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