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Alfred, Lord Tennyson

1809 - 1892

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Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (; 6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was an English poet. He was the Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign. In 1829, Tennyson was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his first pieces, "Timbuktu". He published his first solo collection of poems, Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, in 1830. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alfred, Lord Tennyson is the 935th most popular writer (down from 771st in 2019), the 877th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 590th in 2019) and the 94th most popular British Writer.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson is most famous for his poems "The Charge of the Light Brigade" and "The Lady of Shalott."

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Among writers, Alfred, Lord Tennyson ranks 935 out of 7,302. Before him are Hans Sachs, Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, Katherine Mansfield, Johann Kaspar Lavater, Aelius Donatus, and Jan Neruda. After him are David Irving, Stefan George, Ján Kollár, Julien Green, Daniel Keyes, and Al-Mutanabbi.

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Among people born in 1809, Alfred, Lord Tennyson ranks 15. Before him are Georges-Eugène Haussmann, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Bruno Bauer, Joseph Liouville, Albert Pike, and Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust. After him are Juliusz Słowacki, Ljudevit Gaj, Hermann Grassmann, Prince Albert of Prussia, Matsumura Sōkon, and Bettino Ricasoli. Among people deceased in 1892, Alfred, Lord Tennyson ranks 17. Before him are Rudolf von Jhering, Annibale de Gasparis, Louis Vuitton, Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia, Deodoro da Fonseca, and Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale. After him are August Wilhelm von Hofmann, Henry Walter Bates, Thomas Cook, Tewfik Pasha, Charles Spurgeon, and Princess Alexandrine of Prussia.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alfred, Lord Tennyson ranks 877 out of 8,785. Before him are William Hyde Wollaston (1766), John Paul Jones (1946), Princess Muna al-Hussein (1941), Dionysios Kasdaglis (1872), Catherine of Lancaster (1373), and Henry Maitland Wilson (1881). After him are David Irving (1938), Rex Harrison (1908), Chris Rea (1951), Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood (1897), James Macpherson (1736), and Percy Fawcett (1867).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Alfred, Lord Tennyson ranks 94. Before him are Eleanor Marx (1855), Wilkie Collins (1824), Samuel Richardson (1689), H. Rider Haggard (1856), Christopher Tolkien (1924), and Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (1878). After him are David Irving (1938), Percy Fawcett (1867), Samuel Butler (1612), Bruce Chatwin (1940), Philip Pullman (1946), and George Gissing (1857).

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