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'''Frederick Tennyson''' (5 June 1807 in [[Louth, Lincolnshire]] – 26 February 1898 in [[Kensington]]) was an English poet.<br />
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==Life==<br />
[[File:Grave of Frederick Tennyson in Highgate Cemetery.jpg|thumb|Grave of Frederick Tennyson in [[Highgate Cemetery]]]]<br />
Frederick Tennyson was the eldest son of George Clayton Tennyson, Rector of [[Somersby, Lincolnshire]], and brother of [[Alfred, Lord Tennyson]]. He was educated at [[Eton 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 to ''[[Poems, by Two Brothers]]'', which Frederick, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and their brother [[Charles Tennyson Turner]] published in 1827. He also won the Browne medal for Greek verse composition (a Sapphic ode on the pyramids) in 1828, but was [[Rustication (academia)|rusticated]] for three terms for refusal to accept punishment for not attending chapel. Re-admitted to [[Cambridge University|Cambridge]] in 1830, he graduated BA in 1832.<ref name=Venn>{{acad|id= TNY825F|name=Tennyson, Frederick}}</ref><br />
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Tennyson passed most of his subsequent life in Italy and [[Jersey]]. On his inheritance of an estate near Grimsby in 1833, he went firstly to [[Corfu]], then settled for twenty years in [[Florence]], where he was a friend of [[Robert Browning|Robert]] and [[Elizabeth Barrett Browning]]. In 1839 he married Maria Carolina Giuliotti, the daughter of the Chief magistrate of [[Tuscany]].<ref name=Venn/><br />
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He became an [[British Israelism|Anglo-Israelite]] and later joined the [[Church of the New Jerusalem]].<ref name=Venn/><br />
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He died on the 26th February 1898 and is buried on the west side of [[Highgate Cemetery]].<br />
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==Works==<br />
* ''Days and Hours'', 1854<br />
* ''The Isles of Greece: Sappho and Alcæus'', 1890<br />
* ''Daphne and other poems'', 1891<br />
* ''Poems of the Day and Year'', 1895<br />
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==References==<br />
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* {{A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature}}<br />
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