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Poet Laureate

Great Britain · Arts / Literature. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1850

Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, 1st19 November 1850

Arts / Literature

After William Wordsworths death in 1850, and Samuel Rogers refusal, Tennyson was appointed to the position of Poet Laureate, which he held until his own death in 1892, by far the longest tenure of any laureate

Names involved

Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, 1st

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