| Authorised form of name | Tennyson; Alfred (1809 - 1892); 1st Baron Tennyson |
| Dates | 1809 - 1892 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Somersby, Lincolnshire, England |
| Date of birth | 06 August 1809 |
| Place of death | Aldworth, Sussex |
| Date of death | 06 October 1892 |
| Dates and places | Burial:
Westminster Abbey, London |
| Activity | Education:
Louth; Trinity College, Cambridge (1827-1831, no degree); DCL (1855, Oxford)
Career:
Joint author with his brother of 'Poems by two brothers' (1827); Poet Laureate (1850); Honorary Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge
Honours:
Baron 1884
Memberships:
FRSE (Honorary); Literary Fund Society (Vice President)
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 01/06/1865 |
| Relationships | Third son of Rev George Clayton Tennyson, Rector of Somersby, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Rev Stephen Fytche, Vicar of Louth; nephew of Charles Tennyson (later D'Eyncourt) (FRS 1829); married (13 June 1850) Emily, daughter of Henry Sellwood and his wife Sarah, sister of Sir John Franklin (FRS 1823) (she died 1896) |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
References:
Peter Bridges, 'A Long-Distance Londoner' in NR 1998 vol 52 pp 121-129
A J Meadows, 'Astronomy and Geology, Terrible Muses! Tennyson and 19th-Century Science' in NR 1992 vol 46 pp 111-118
Vanity Fair 22 July 1871 |
| Royal Society code | NA6058 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EC/1865/13 | Tennyson, Alfred, 1st Baron Tennyson: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| MS/769/75 | Letter from Lord Rosse, The Castle, Parsonstown, to [Walter White?] | 12 January 1865 |
| NLB/6/1028 | Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 6 October 1892 |
| NLB/6/1045 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Messrs Macmillan & Company | 7 October 1892 |
| NLB/6/1046 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster, Fellow of the Royal Society | 8 October 1892 |
| NLB/10/984 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Mr Alfred W Hux, Prince of Wales's Theatre, Coventry Street, W. | 18 March 1895 |
| IM/004520 | Tennyson, Alfred, | 1865 |