Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. Was the son of the Rev. George Tennyson, rector of Somersby in Lincolnshire, where he was born in 1809. He was educated at Louth grammar school, and in 1827, published "Poems by Two Brothers," partly the work of his brother Charles. In 1828, he matriculated at Cambridge, where he gained the chancellor's medal. "Poems: Chiefly Lyrical" was followed in 1833, by a volume containing "The Palace of Art," "Aenone," and other of his best known pieces, "The Gardener's Daughter," "Locksley Hall," and other poems were added in 1842, and, in 1847, appeared "The Princess, a Medley," in blank verse. "In Memoriam," a tribute to the memory of Arthur Hallam, was published in 1850. In the same year, Tennyson succeeded Wordsworth as poet-laureate. Among his subsequent poems were "Maud," "The Idylls of the King," "Enoch Arden," "Becket," a drama, and "Demeter," "The Forester," etc. In 1884, he was created a peer. Tennyson died in 1892.

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