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ALFRED LORD TENNYSON. From the original at the National Portrait Gallery. Chalk drawing by M Arnault. His original signature can be seen at the British Museum, London, on a letter post marked October 22nd, 1864, to Wm. Cox Bennett, Author of "Songs of Sailors" thanking him for some verse. Poet, son of a clergyman, born at Somersby, Lincolnshire, 1809. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he won a university prize for a poem on Timbuctoo. In 1845 the state confered an annual pension of £200 on him and in 1850 he was appointed Poet Laureat in succession to Wordsworth. Raised to the peerage, 1883, he died in 1892 and was buried in Westminster Abbey. Some of his best known works are "The Princess.", "Idols of the King", "Crossing the Bar", and "Mauld" and "In Memoriam".

ALFRED LORD TENNYSON. From the original at the National Portrait Gallery. Chalk drawing by M Arnault. His original signature can be seen at the British Museum, London, on a letter post marked October 22nd, 1864, to Wm. Cox Bennett, Author of "Songs of Sailors" thanking him for some verse. Poet, son of a clergyman, born at Somersby, Lincolnshire, 1809. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he won a university prize for a poem on Timbuctoo. In 1845 the state confered an annual pension of £200 on him and in 1850 he was appointed Poet Laureat in succession to Wordsworth. Raised to the peerage, 1883, he died in 1892 and was buried in Westminster Abbey. Some of his best known works are "The Princess.", "Idols of the King", "Crossing the Bar", and "Mauld" and "In Memoriam".
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ALFRED LORD TENNYSON. From the original at the National Portrait Gallery. Chalk drawing by M Arnault. His original signature can be seen at the British Museum, London, on a letter post marked October 22nd, 1864, to Wm. Cox Bennett, Author of "Songs of Sailors" thanking him for some verse. Poet, son of a clergyman, born at Somersby, Lincolnshire, 1809. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he won a university prize for a poem on Timbuctoo. In 1845 the state confered an annual pension of £200 on him and in 1850 he was appointed Poet Laureat in succession to Wordsworth. Raised to the peerage, 1883, he died in 1892 and was buried in Westminster Abbey. Some of his best known works are "The Princess.", "Idols of the King", "Crossing the Bar", and "Mauld" and "In Memoriam".
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