Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (1809-1892), Poet Laureate
Sitter in 86 portraits
Born in Somersby, Lincolnshire, Tennyson was educated in Louth before attending Trinity College, Cambridge. His early life and poetry was greatly affected by the unexpected death of his close friend and prospective brother-in-law, Arthur Hallam, to whom Tennyson dedicated his 'In Memoriam'. Some of the best-known poems include 'The Charge of the Light Brigade', 'The Lady of Shalott' and the 'Idylls of the King', while those in dialect retain the language of his Lincolnshire youth. Tennyson was Britain's longest-serving Poet Laureate, from 1850 until his death forty-two years later. A great favourite of Queen Victoria, she awarded him a barony in 1883.
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by James Mudd
woodburytype, 1861
NPG x13232
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by James Mudd, published by Cundall, Downes & Co
albumen carte-de-visite, 1861
NPG x26790
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by William Jeffrey
albumen carte-de-visite, 1861
NPG x26792
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by William Jeffrey
albumen carte-de-visite, 1861
NPG x26793
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by James Mudd, published by Cundall, Downes & Co
albumen carte-de-visite, 1861
NPG x13230
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by James Mudd
albumen carte-de-visite, 1861
NPG x13231
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
albumen carte-de-visite, after 1862
NPG Ax7505
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by John Jabez Edwin Mayall
albumen carte-de-visite, 1864
NPG Ax18247
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by John Jabez Edwin Mayall
albumen carte-de-visite, 1864
NPG x3686
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by William Jeffrey
albumen carte-de-visite, 1865
NPG Ax30389
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by Elliott & Fry
albumen carte-de-visite, 1865
NPG Ax30390
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by Elliott & Fry
albumen carte-de-visite, 1865
NPG Ax17800
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by Elliott & Fry
albumen carte-de-visite, 1865
NPG Ax18220
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print on gold-edged cabinet, May 1865
NPG x18053
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, arched top, May 1865
NPG x18024
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, May 1865
NPG x44991
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by William Jeffrey
albumen carte-de-visite, 1865
NPG x5887
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by Elliott & Fry
albumen cabinet card, late 1860s
NPG x12996
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by Elliott & Fry
albumen carte-de-visite, late 1860s
NPG x26799
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by Elliott & Fry
vintage print, late 1860s
NPG x126171
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