Births
Published: 12:48 AM, 06 August 2018
Alfred Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson FRS was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Irelandduring much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets.
Tennyson was born on 6 August 1809 in Somersby, Lincolnshire, England. He was born on 6 August 1809 into a middle-class line of Tennysons, but also had a noble and royal ancestry (no details supplied).An illustration by W. E. F. Brittenshowing Somersby Rectory, where Tennyson was raised and began writing.
His father, George Clayton Tennyson (1778-1831), was rector of Somersby (1807-1831), also rector of Benniworth (1802-1831) and Bag Enderby, and vicar of Grimsby (1815).
Alfred Tennyson's mother, Elizabeth Fytche (1781-1865), was the daughter of Stephen Fytche (1734-1799),Tennyson's father "carefully attended to the education and training of his children".
