Frederick Tennyson
Frederick Tennyson (5 June 1807 in Louth, Lincolnshire – 26 February 1898 in Kensington) was an English poet.
Life
Frederick Tennyson was the eldest son of George Clayton Tennyson, Rector of
Cambridge in 1830, he graduated BA in 1832.[1]
Tennyson passed most of his subsequent life in Italy and Jersey. On his inheritance of an estate near Grimsby in 1833, he went firstly to Corfu, then settled for twenty years in Florence, where he was a friend of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. In 1839 he married Maria Carolina Giuliotti, the daughter of the Chief magistrate of Tuscany.[1]
He became an
Church of the New Jerusalem.[1]
He died on the 26th February 1898 and is buried on the west side of Highgate Cemetery.
Works
- Days and Hours, 1854
- The Isles of Greece: Sappho and Alcæus, 1890
- Daphne and other poems, 1891
- Poems of the Day and Year, 1895
References
- ^ a b c "Tennyson, Frederick (TNY825F)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London: J. M. Dent & Sons – via Wikisource.
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