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TENNYSON IS DUD.England’? Poet Laureate Expires at Haslemere.A Sketch of H!b Long and Brilliant Literary Life.vyLORD TENNYSOX.Alfred, Lord Tennyson, is dea I. The Poet laureate of England passed away quietly in his home at Haslemere, where he had been lying at the point of death for three weeks. On the last night the household at Aid wort u, his country seat, remained up watching at the bedside and waiting for his death. Sir Andrew Clark, Dr. Dabbs, Lady Tennyson, Hailam Tennyson and an old family serraut were in the sick chamber at the fatal moment. His death wa* painless, and he retained consciousness untu theend.Sketch ot His Career.Alfred Tennyson, th3 fir^fc Bv*o*i Tennyson. was born August 6. 1809, at therectory of Somersbv, a quiet village of Lincolnshire, England. He was tbe fourth of twelve children, eight sons and four daughters. His ancestry is described as a good one. and industrious genealogists have traced his linoage back through many noble names to King Edward I.His father, the Rev. Dr. Georg? Clayton TenDysoD, was then the rector of Som-rsbv.He married Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. 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-making. Later he wa« sent with his elder brother Charles to a grammar school at Louth .In 1829 Alfred entered Trinity College, Cambridge, where his tutor was Whewell, and his comrades included Thackerav, Milnes (Lord Houghton). Spedding, Trench, Alford, Kemble and Kinglake. He took the Chancellors prize there (1829) for a poem on a given subject—“Timbnctoo” —and he seems to have been looked upon by all who knew him as a scholar of rare promise; but he did not graduate, and for a number of years after leaving tha University he led an extremely quiet and meditative life, avoiding society, but enjoying the occasional visits of a few intimate friends, among whom Arthur Hailam, the son of the historian, was the dearest and the roost brilliant.Before he left the University he published his first avowed volume, a little collection of ‘'Poems. Chieflv Lyrical” (London 1S39). After tbe publication of his second volume (1832) Tennyson remained silent for tea years.“The Princess.” bis first Jong po?m, appeared in 1817. In the year of the publication of “In Memoriam” (1859) Tennyson received, with universal approval, the appointment. of Po«t Laureate, in suec?ssion to Wordsworth. F.ve years later he gave us “Maud,” which was more vehemently discussed than any of his previous productions.The personality of Tennvson is unknown to the general public, he having, with increased care and energy as age advanced, shut himself up in the privacy of bis house and grounds.Lord Tennyson at one time made a practice of running up to London at least once a year, and roaming about, as far as possible unrecognized, but no one could pass him by without turning to look at on? of the strangest figures that ever trod the streets of modern London. A tall, round-shouldered man. growing stout m the-e later years, he always walked with a stick, and gave the impression that he was not entirely free from gout. A long beard covered his face, and he looked out through a pair of large spectacles upon a world which, on the whole, he was rather inclined to despise. In supplement of his sDec-tacles there dangled across the somewhat shabby-looking tweed dustcoat a pair of gold-rimmed pince-nez. The tweed dust-coat. in color a musty red, was evidently an acquaintance of many years, an 1 had now grown too tight for him across the chest, over which it was, nevertheless, determinedly buttoned. Dark trousers, with gaiters over his thickened boots, and a broad brimmed felt hat. probably older by some years than the tweed dustcoat, completed the dress of the Poet Laureat? when Inst he was seen strudily plodding across Regent’s Park.In 1884 Tennyson was create! Baron Tennyson in the peerage of the United Kingdom. Ke was Poet Laureate until his death and au Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. H“ received th» degree of I). C L. from Oxfori in 1835 and was patron of th? living of Grasby Vicarage. Lincolnshire, of which his brother Charles wa= curate from 1835 uutil his death in 1ST9. In 1S. he married Emily, daughter of Henry Sellwood, Esq. Lard Tennyson had two children—Hailam and Lionel. Hal-Iam was born on August 11, 18.12, and was educated at Marlborough College and at. Trinitv College. Cambridge. He married, in 1881. Audrey Georgiana Florence, daughter oc Charles John Boyle, and granddaughter of the Vice-Admiral Courtenay Boyle, third son of theseventh Earl of Cork. She was then thirty years old. Tney have no children. Lionel was horn in 1S54 and was educated at Eton an I at Trinitv »'oilege. Cambridge. On Febru iry 2S, 1878, he married Eleanor Mary Bcrtua, only child of Frederick Locker, the poet, and bis firs: wife. Lady Charlotte Christian Bruce, daughter of the seventh Earl of Elgin, who is famous as an ambassador an i for his collection of raaihie-. Lionel s?rved some time in the India Office and died in India on April 20, 1SSS. leaving three sons—Alfred Browning Stanley, barn 187S; Cuariei Bruce Locker, born 1872, ana Michael Seliwood, bora ISSo.
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