Henry Yates Thompson, former student of Trinity College, and his wife placed this statue here on 19th October 1909. Hamo Thornycroft, R.A., carved this in 1909. The poet Alfred Tennyson was born in 1809 in Somersby, Lincolnshire he died in 1892 as Baron Tennyson of Aldworth and Farringford at his home in Aldworth. He often wrote poetry based on mythology. He served as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom for 42 years (term 1850-1892). Alfred, Lord Tennyson was a popular English poet. POSUERUNT HENRICUS YATES THOMPSON COLLEGII SS. Alfred Lord Tennyson, Writer: The Charge of the Light Brigade. That crash’d the glass and beat the floor The much-quoted Tennyson was the author of The Charge of the Light Brigade, Crossing the Bar, The Lady of Shalott (see picture below), and In Memoriam, which he wrote to commemorate his friend Arthur Hallam, another Trinity poet, and which contains the immortal lines “’Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all.” Verse 87 is a nostalgic sketch of life at Trinity: It was put there by a secret conspiracy between the sculptor Thornycroft and the donor Harry Yates Thompson, a life-long friend of the then Master Montagu Butler, who was well aware of the Master’s dislike of smoking.
In the bas-relief of the statue a pipe bowl lies half-hidden among the laurel wreaths. He succeeded Wordsworth as Poet Laureate and held the position from 1850 until his death - far longer than anyone before or since. As a student at Trinity he won the Chancellor’s Medal for a poem, but left Cambridge without taking a degree. he died in 1892 at the age of 83 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.1809-92. Tennyson continued to write poetry throughout his life and in the 1870s also wrote a number of plays. He was the first Englishman to be granted such a high rank solely for literary distinction. Famous poet Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) was named Poet Laureate in Great Britain and Ireland. The repeated lines, For men may come and men may go, but I go on for ever, showcase that. The brook shows persistence by continuing to flow, no matter what obstacles get in its way. In 1884, as a great favourite of both Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, he was raised to the peerage and was thereafter known as Baron Tennyson of Aldworth. The narrator in this poem, the brook, is personified. They had two children, Hallam born in 1852 and Lionel, two years later. In 1850, following William Wordsworth, Tennyson was appointed Poet Laureate and married his childhood friend, Emily Sellwood. In 1833, Tennyson's best friend Arthur Henry Hallam, who was engaged to his sister, died, inspiring some of his best work including In Memoriam, Ulysses and the Passing of Arthur. His second book, Poems Chiefly Lyrical was published in 1830. In 1816 Tennyson was sent to Louth Grammar School, which he disliked so intensely that from 1820 he was educated at home until at the age of 18 he joined his two brothers at Trinity College, Cambridge and with his brother Charles published his first book, Poems by Two Brothers the same year. Related Poems In Memoriam, Epilogue, O true and tried, so well and long O true and tried, so well and long, Demand not thou a marriage lay In that it is thy marriage day Is music more than any song. In 1850, follo Alfred Tennyson, invariably known as Alfred Lord Tennyson on all his books, was born in Somersby, Lincolnshire, the fourth of the twelve children of George Tennyson, clergyman, and his wife, Elizabeth. In 1816 Tennyson was sent to Louth Grammar School, which he disliked so intensely that from 1820 he was educated at home until at the age of 18 he joined his two brothers at Trinity College, Cambridge and with his brother Charles published his first book, Poems by Two Brothers the same year. Alfred Tennyson, invariably known as Alfred Lord Tennyson on all his books, was born in Somersby, Lincolnshire, the fourth of the twelve children of George Tennyson, clergyman, and his wife, Elizabeth.
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