Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-10-21
Sketch of His Career.


son, was born August 6, 1899, at the
rectory OF Sonersbv, a quiet village
of Lincolnshire, ENGLAND. He was
the fourth of twelve children.
eight sons and four daughters. His ancestry
is described as a good one. and industrious
genealogists have traced his lineage back
through many noble names TO King Ed
ward l.
His father, the Rev DR.. George Clayton
Tennyson, was then the rector Of Somersbv.
He married Elizabeth, daughter of the
Pew. Stephen Fiytche. vicar of Louth.
From his father Alfred received his early
education, including an intimacy with out
of-door nature, and practice in verse-mak-
ing. Later he was sent with his elder BROTH
er Charles to a grammar school at Louth.
In 1899 Alfred entered Trinity College,
Cambridge. where his tutor was Whewell,
and his comrades included Thackeray,
Mines lord Houghton}. Speeding, Trench,
Afford, Kemble and Kinglake- He took
the Chancellor's prize there $500 for
poem on a given subject 'Ilmouctoo"
and he seems to have been looked
upon by all who knew him as scholar OF
rare promise: but he did not graduate, and
for g. number Of years after leaving ths
University he led extremely quiet and
meditative life avoiding society, but enjoy
ing the occasional visits OF a few intimate
friends, among whom Arthur Ratlam, the
son of the historian, was the dearest and
the most brilliant.
Before he left the University he published
his first avowed volume. little collection
of Poems, Chiefly LYRICAL (London 1880.
After the publication of his second volume
1892 Tennyson remained silent for ten
years
E'The Princess" his first long poem, ap-
peared in 1847. In the year of the publica-
ton of I'm Memoriam" 1850 Tennyson
received, with universal approval, the ap-
pointment of Poet Laureate, in succession to
Wordsworth. Five years later he gave us
o,,l n
cussed than any of his previous produc-
tiOns.
The personality of Tennvson is unknown
to the general public, he having, with in
creased care and energy age advanced.
shut himself up in the privacy of his house
and grounds.
Lord Tennyson at one time made a prac-
tice of running up to London at least once
a year, and roaming about as far as posi-
BILE unrecognized, but no one could pass him
by without turning to look at one of the
strangest figures that ever trod the streets
of modern London. A tall. rouad-shoui-
dered man. growing stout IN these later
years he always walked with a stick, and
gave the impression that he was not en-
Sirely free from govt A long beard
covered his face, and he looked out through
pair of large spectacies upon a world
which, on>the whole. he was rather inclined
to despise. In supplement of his spec
tacIes there dangled across the somewhat
gold-rimmed pince-nez. The tweed dust
coat in color musty red, was evidently an
acquaintance Of many years, and had now
grown too tight for him across the chest,
over which it was, nevertheless, deter
minedly buttoned. Dark trousers, with
CATERS over his thickened boots, and a
broad brin1med felt hat, probably older by
some years than the tweed dustcoat, com
pleted the dress of the Poet Laureate when
last he was seen strudily plodding across
Regents PARK
In 1884 Tennyson was created Baron Ten
nyson in the peerare of the United King
dom. He was Poet Laureate until his
death and an Honorary Fellow Of Trinity
College. Cambridge. He received the de-
gree of D. c. L. from Oxford in 1856 aud
arage, Lincolnshire, OF which his brother
Charles was curate from 1885 until his death
in 1879. In 1850 ne married Emily, daugh-
ter of Henry Sellwood Esq. Lord Tennyson
had two children-Hallam and Lionel. Hal
lam was ads,o born on august ,h II, 1852 and
lege and at Trinity College Cambridge.
He married, in 1884, Audrey Georgiana
Florence, daughter or Charles John Boyle,
and granddaughter OF the Vice-Ad-
miral Courtenay BOYLE third son OF the
seventh Earl of Cork. She was then
dren. Lionel was born in 1854 and was edu-
Gated at Elton and at Trinity College, Cam
bridge. On February IS, 1878 he married
Eleanor Mary Bertha, only child of
Frederick Locker, the poet, and MS first
wife, Lady Charlotte Christian Bruce
famous as an ambassador ani for his col.
lection OF marbles. Lionel served some
time in the India Offica and died in India Oh
April 90, 1885, leaving threa sons-Alfred
Browning Stanley, BORN 1878; Caar!eI
Bruce Locker, born 1872, ana Michael
Sell wood born 1854