Lionel Tennyson

1854 - 1886  (32 years)

• Name	Lionel Tennyson  [1, 2]
  Birth	16 Mar 1854	Freshwater, Hampshire, England   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Reference Number	15388
  Residence	1871	Freshwater, Hampshire, England   [2]
  	Relation to Head of House: Son
  Death	20 Apr 1886  [1]
  Person ID	I15388	KLD Genealogy
  Last Modified	11 Apr 2026

  
  

  Father	Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson FRS,   b. 6 Aug 1809, Somersby, Lincolnshire, England d. 6 Oct 1892, Lurgashall, Sussex, England (Age 83 years)
  Relationship	bio
  Mother	Emily Sarah Sellwood, Baroness Tennyson,   b. 9 Jul 1813, Horncastle, Lincolnshire, England d. 10 Aug 1896 (Age 83 years)
  Relationship	bio
  Marriage	13 Jun 1850  [1]
  Family ID	F5653	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 16 Mar 1854 - Freshwater, Hampshire, England Residence - Relation to Head of House: Son - 1871 - Freshwater, Hampshire, England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show	2 Photos
  	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…
  	Lionel Tennyson (cause of death)

  
  

• Sources

  [S622] Ancestry.com, U.S., Family History Books, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2025;), Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of the British Empire As At Present Existing; Author: Lodge, Edmund. U.S., Family History Books Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of the British Empire As At Present Existing; Author: Lodge, Edmund [S896] Ancestry.com, 1871 England Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2004;), The National Archives; Kew, London, England; 1871 England Census; Class: RG10; Piece: 1172; Folio: 70; Page: 26; GSU roll: 827802. 1871 England Census The National Archives; Kew, London, England; 1871 England Census; Class: RG10; Piece: 1172; Folio: 70; Page: 26; GSU roll: 827802