Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
- Cowes -
- Freshwater All Saints : Alfred, Lord Tennyson Memorial -

Location

In All Saints Church, Freshwater, Isle of Wight
 
Description

Marble memorial plaque.

Memorial

Freshwater All Saints : Alfred, Lord Tennyson Memorial
 
Freshwater All Saints : Alfred, Lord Tennyson Memorial
 
Freshwater All Saints : Alfred, Lord Tennyson Memorial
 
Inscription


IN LOVING MEMORY
OF
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
WHOSE HAPPIEST DAYS WERE PASSED AT FARRINGFORD
IN THIS PARISH
BORN AUGUST 6TH 1809
DIED OCTOBER 6TH 1892
BURIED IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY OCTOBER 12TH 1892
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"SPEAK, LIVING VOICE, WITH THEE DEATH IS NOT DEATH
THE LIFE OUTLIVES THE LIFE OF DUST AND BREATH"
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ALSO IN LOVING MEMORY OF HIS WIFE
EMILY, LADY TENNYSON
BORN JULY 9TH 1813
DIED AUGUST 10TH 1896
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"DEAR, NEAR AND TRUE - NO TRUER TIME HIMSELF"
"CAN PROVE YOU, THO' HE MAKE YOU EVERMORE"
"DEARER AND NEARER."


 

ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
1809 - 1892
Centenary Portrait Bust
Commissioned 1992 by
THE FARRINGFORD TENNYSON SOCIETY


 
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