Title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom created in 1884
Arms of Tennyson:Gules, a bend nebuly or thereon a chaplet vert between three leopard's faces jessant-de-lys of the second[1]Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, the poet, usually (though, strictly, incorrectly) referred to as "Alfred, Lord Tennyson".[2]
Adexter arm in armour the hand in a gauntlet or grasping a broken tilting spear enfiled with a garland of laurel
Escutcheon
Gules, a bend nebuly or thereon a chaplet in the chief point vert between three leopard's facesjessant-de-lys of the second
Supporters
On either side a leopard rampant guardant gules semy-de-lys and ducally crowned or
Motto
Respiciens Prospiciens (Latin: "Looking backwards (is)[5] looking forwards" (i.e. "History repeats itself"; "If you want to see into the future study the past")