Alfred Tennyson, first Baron Tennyson, the fifteenth Poet Laureate in succession to Edmund Spenser, was born in the Lincolnshire hamlet of Somersby, of which the Rev. Dr. George Clayton Tennyson, his father, was rector, on August 6, 1809-that wonderful year in which Darwin, Gladstone, Abraham Lincoln and Oliver Wendell Holmes were also born.. ..
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