it. Sassoon was reportedly devastated, but recovered to marry in 1933 and become a father in 1936. When Tennant died in 1987, he had far outlived most of his contemporaries. A large archive of his letters, scrapbooks, personal ephemera and artworks is held in The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History in Hackney, London. In popular culture The character of Cedric Hampton in the novel Love in a Cold Climate is based on Tennant. The character of Miles Malpractice in the novel Vile Bodies is based on Tennant. Lord Sebastian Flyte, a character in the novel Brideshead Revisited, is partly based on Tennant. The narrator of Shola von Reinhold's novel LOTE (2020) is obsessed ("transfixed") with Tennant, and mentions him throughout the book. He was played by Calam Lynch in the 2021 Terence Davies film Benediction. References Further reading Philip Hoare: Serious Pleasures: The Life of Stephen Tennant (1992) External links Stephen Tennant Papers. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. 1906 births 1987 deaths English people of Scottish descent English socialites Younger sons of barons English LGBT people Stephen 20th-century LGBT people