Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Somersby

Alfred, Lord Tennyson was born in 1809, and where his father was the rector of the local parish Church of St Margaret. He spent his boyhood, roaming the countryside which he lovingly recalled as being rich ‘with plaited alleys of trailing rose’. He took inspiration from the gardens and countryside of his beloved Lincolnshire.

He was one of 12 children brought up at the rectory now Somersby House.

Tennyson became Poet Laureate in 1850 and wrote Idyllis of the King in 1859 and died in 1892.