Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892), poet, was born at Somersby in Lincolnshire and attended Louth Grammar School, before going up to Trinity College, Cambridge.
He was appointed Poet Laureate to succeed William Wordsworth. As Poet Laureate he produced his best known work 'The Charge of the Light Brigade'. Other works include 'The Lady of Shalott' and 'Morte d'Arthur'.
His early works were dismissed as sentimental tosh. The criticism was harsh, and Tennyson took the criticism badly, and did not publish again for ten years.
'The Lady of Shalott' was published as part of a collection simply entitled Poems (1833).
His Arthurian tales were collected together in Idylls of the King (1885). Idylls of the King was typical of much of his work, in that it had a mythological or classical theme.
Later in his career, Tennyson turned his hand to churning out plays, but these turned out to be a flop.
Tennyson was the first poet to be elevated to the peerage. He lies buried in Westminster Abbey.
A statue of Tennyson can be found outside Lincoln Cathedral.