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Alfred Tennyson

1809–1892

poet, Victoria's Poet Laureate

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Born:
6 August 1809
Died:
6 October 1892 (aged 83)
  • At Victoria's birth (1819): aged 9
  • At Victoria's accession (1837): aged 27
  • At Victoria and Albert's wedding (1840): aged 30
  • At Albert's death (1861): aged 52
  • At Victoria's Golden Jubilee (1887): aged 77

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Life in the Almanack

  1. 6 August 1809 Birth of Alfred Tennyson, poet, Victoria's Poet Laureate
  2. 6 October 1892 Death of Alfred Tennyson, poet, Victoria's Poet Laureate aged 83

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