The hero of Waterloo, vanquisher of Napoleon – poet laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson hailed him as the ... year he started at Eton with his younger brother, Gerald. Anne, his mother, thought ...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate, died on 6th October 1892 at his home in Haslemere, Surrey. On 11th October the coffin was brought to Westminster Abbey and lay overnight in St Faith's chapel ...