Frederick Tennyson (5 June 1807 inLouth, Lincolnshire – 26 February 1898 inKensington) was an English poet.
Frederick Tennyson was the eldest son of George Clayton Tennyson, Rector ofSomersby, Lincolnshire, and brother ofAlfred, Lord Tennyson. He was educated atEton College (where, as a skilled cricketer, he was Captain of the Oppidans) and, from 1827,St John's College, Cambridge. While at Cambridge he contributed four poems toPoems, by Two Brothers, which Frederick, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and their brotherCharles Tennyson Turner published in 1827. He also won the Browne medal for Greek verse composition (a Sapphic ode on the pyramids) in 1828, but wasrusticated for three terms for refusal to accept punishment for not attending chapel. Re-admitted toCambridge in 1830, he graduated BA in 1832.[1]
Tennyson passed most of his subsequent life in Italy andJersey. On his inheritance of an estate near Grimsby in 1833, he went firstly toCorfu, then settled for twenty years inFlorence, where he was a friend ofRobert andElizabeth Barrett Browning. In 1839 he married Maria Carolina Giuliotti, the daughter of the Chief magistrate ofTuscany.[1]
He became anAnglo-Israelite and later joined theChurch of the New Jerusalem.[1]
He died on the 26th February 1898 and is buried on the west side ofHighgate Cemetery.
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