The Poet Laureate Size:Standard: 6 x 4in A watch chain is visible

A watch chain is visible at the waistcoat

Sir Marc Isambard Brunel

Side view of the snake with three details of the head and tail

League Three match at Field Mill

Frontispiece of the book Musaeum Regalis Societatis

The Poet Laureate Size:Standard: 6 x 4in A watch chain is visible'The Poet Laureate', 1871. Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 1892), English poet. One of the most popular English poets, he succeeded William Wordsworth as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom in 1850 and held the position until his death. In 1884, Queen Victoria, who was an admirer of Tennyson's work, made him a baron. A print from Vanity Fair, 22 July 1871.