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Sketch of His Career.

Alfred Tenuyson, the first Baron Tenny-
son. was born August G. 1909, at the
rectory os Sonersbv. a quiet village
of Lincolnshire, ENGLAND. He was
EIGHT sons and four daughters His ancestry
is described as a good one, and industrious
geuealogists 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 Somersby.
He married Elizabeth, daughter OF the
Rev. Stephen Flytche, vicar of Louth.
From his father Alfred received his early
education, including an intimacy WIN % out
of-door nature. and practice in verse max
ing. Later he was sent with his elder broth
er Charles to grammar school at Louth.
In 1899 Alfred entered Trinity .ollego
Cambridge, where bis tutor was WheWeii,
al his comrades included Thackeray,
Mines lord Houghton). Speeding, Trench,
Afford, Kemble and Kjnglake: he took
the Chancellor's prize there GSS9) 1or
poem on a given subject-NIlmouctoo,
upon by all who knew him as scholar OF
rare promise: but he did not graduate, and
for q number of years after leaving tne
University he led an extremely, quet ana
metiitative life. avoiding society, but ENJOY
ING the occasional visits OF few lntlmate
friends. among whom Arthur Hallam, the
son of the historian, was the dearest ana
the most brilliant.
Before he left the University he published
his first avowed volume. little collection
of Poems, Chiefly Lyrical Nondon 1880.
After the publication of his second volume
1SS9 Tennyson remained silent for ten
"The Princsss,s his first long poem, ap-
peared in lS47 In the year Of the pubica-
ton OF 'tIn Memoriam" QS5N Tennyson
received, with universal approval, the ap-
pointment of Poet Laureate, in succession to
Wordsworth. Five years later he gave US
MAUD" which was more vehemently dis
cussed than any of his previous produc'
tinus
The personality of Tennyson is unknown
to the general public, he having with in
creased care and energy as age advanced,
shut himself up in the privacy of his house
and grounds.
Lord Tennyson at one time made prac-
tice of running up to London at least once
a year, aud roaming about, as far as posi-
BILE unrecognized, but no one could pass MIN
by without turning to look at one OF the
strangest figures that ever trod the streets
of modern London. A tall. round-shout
dered man, growing stout In these later
wears. he always walked with stick, and
gave the impression that he was not en-.
sirely free from gout. long beard
covered his face, and he looked out through
pair of large spectacles upon Worid
which, on the whole, he was rather inclined
to despise. In supplement of his spec
tacles there dangled across the somewhat
shabby-looking tweed dustcoat pair OF
gold-rimmed piuce-nez. TIE tweed dust
Coat, in color a 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
Ininedly buttoned. Dark trousers, with
CATERS over his thickened boots, and
broad brimmed felt hat probably older by
some wears 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 createI Baron lem
nyson in the peerage 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. Z. from Oxford in 1855 and
was patron Of the living Of Grasby Vic
arage, Lincolnshire, of which his brother
Charles was curate from 1885 until his death
in 1879. In 1850 ne married Emily, daush-
ter of Henry Sellwood, Esq. Lord Tennyson
had two children-aallam and Lionel; Hal
lam WAS born on August IL, 1882 ana
lege and at Trinity College, Cambridge.
He married, in 1884, Audrey Georgiana
Florence, daughter OF Charles John Boyle,
and granddaughter of the Vice-Ad-
miral Courtenay Boyle, third son of the
seventh Earl Of Cork. She was then
thirty years old. They have no chill
dren. Lionel was born in 1854 and was edu.
c,ted at Eton and at Trinity College, Cam:
bridge. On February %, 1879, he married
l'ioopor Mary Rprtha only child OF
frederick Locker, the poet, and his first
wife, Lady Charlotte Christian Bruce,
laughter Of the seventh Earl Of Elgin, who is
famous as an ambassador and for his COL
lection Of marbles. Lionel served some
time in the India Office and died in India on
April 90, 1856, leaving three sons-Alfred
Browning Stanley, BORN 1878: Charles
Bruce Locker, born 1879. and Michael
Sellwood, born 1888.