KL DeWitt Family Research Project
Our Family's Journey Through Time from Europe and Canada to the USA
Name | Lionel Tennyson | |
Birth | 1854 | |
Gender | Male | |
Death | 1886 | |
Person ID | I15808 | KLDGenealogy |
Father | Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson FRS, b. 6 Aug 1809, Somersby, Lincolnshire, England ![]() ![]() | |
Relationship | natural | |
Mother | Emily Sarah Sellwood, b. 9 Jul 1813 d. 10 Aug 1896 (Age 83 years) | |
Relationship | natural | |
Family ID | F5593 | Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Photos | ![]() | Lionel Tennyson (cause of death) |
![]() | Victorian Snapshot: Son Of Empire, Honorable Lionel Tennyson This deeply reflective portrait shows the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson's youngest son, Lionel, who later joined the India Office. In 1885, he contracted malaria at Assam and died at sea on the journey home in 1886. A boyhood friend reminisced about Lionel: " I hear again the voice of my best loved friend, Lionel Tennyson, and gaze once more into… |
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