Alfred Tennyson Studied At Cambridge
On August 6, 1809, in the village of Somersby in Lincolnshire, Alfred Tennyson was born. He was Elizabeth Fytche and George Clayton Tennyson's ninth child. Despite having noble and royal lineage in his family, Tennyson came from a middle-class background. His father, George Clayton Tennyson (1778–1831), was a member of the Anglican clergy who held the positions of vicar of Grimsby, rector of Benniworth (1802–1831), and rector of Somersby (1807–1831).
Tennyson got his start in poetry as a youngster. He began composing a 6, 000-line epic at the age of 12 in the style of Sir Walter Scott. Other young role models included Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron, whose passing in 1824 he particularly lamented. Tennyson, just 14 years old, wrote The Devil and the Lady, a play that expertly imitated Elizabethan comic verse.
From 1816 until 1820, Tennyson attended King Edward VI Grammar School in Louth. In 1827, he enrolled in Trinity College in Cambridge, where he became a member of the Cambridge Apostles, a covert organization. Trinity's collection includes a George Frederic Watts portrait of Tennyson. Tennyson made his closest pals, Arthur Hallam and William Henry Brookfield, at Cambridge. When they were teenagers, Alfred and his two older brothers began writing poetry. From 1816 to 1820, Alfred Tennyson attended the Louth Grammar School. Another fascinating information about Alfred Lord Tennyson is that he graduated from Scaitcliffe School Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1827.
