B I O G R A P H I C A L N O T E
Somersby Rectory, the birthplace of Alfred Tennyson
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Alfred Tennyson was born on Sunday, August 6th, 1809, at Somersby, a village in North Lincolnshire between Horncastle and Spilsby. His father, the Rev. Dr. George Clayton Tennyson, Rector of Somersby, married in 1805 Elizabeth Fytche, daughter of the Vicar of Louth, in the same county; and, of their twelve children, Alfred was the fourth.
From a portrait by G. F. Watts, R.A.
ALFRED TENNYSON
Rischgitz Collection