Posted on 12/22/2005 5:52:34 PM PST by aculeus
THE colourful, gay lifestyle of the great-grandson of Alfred, Lord Tennyson was being investigated by police last night, after he was found stabbed to death in his bed.
Hallam Tennyson, 85, who had boasted that his sexual adventures would have horrified the Victorian Poet Laureate, was found by a former partner at his home in North London on Wednesday night. He had been stabbed several times.
Mr Tennyson, a retired BBC executive who was educated at Eton, invited men back to his flat in Crouch End up to three times a week. A list of those believed to have been regular visitors has been provided by a former boyfriend and detectives are trying to trace them.
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Mr Tennyson wrote a biography in 1984 in which he listed a string of homosexual liaisons. He wrote: “There has inevitably been a good deal of waste. Instead of spending hours haunting public lavatories, or other pick-up points, I might have read several books as long as War and Peace — I might even have written one.”
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Ugh...
Poor guy, but still... UGH...
An ironic name...
My goodness, what a sad life. Still, you wonder why anyone would bother to kill him, when he's 85.
He lived a very hazardous life and it finally caught up with him.
Who stabs an 85 year old man to death other than robbers? 85 year old people tend to be pretty inactive and not involved in dangerous activities. I guess his lifestyle put him at high risk.
"Ever dance witht the devil in the pale moonlight?"
I'll bet the ambient temperature in Eternity is hotter than it was in London.
85 and still an active caboose. Amazing.
You live all those years and then, poof! you're gone...
Are they sure it was a stab wound-maybe it was a near sighted lover who "missed the mark" so to speak.
Ex-lovers.
He'll have a lot of company with all of the adulterers, divorcees and people who had pre-marital sex...
Yes, in the end, he got it...I mean, he got it in the end...well, several times it seems..
Ahhhh, the good life.
Why was it a "colorful" gay lifestyle instead of "perverted" gay lifestyle?
ROFLMAO!!! He lived to be 85 with that lifestyle??? Either he was blessed by God, or he told some very tall tales!!! God bless him though...nobody should die like that.
are there another kind?...at least till their 50s
Couldn't control his sexual urges. An 85 year old Gay man out cruising is an easy target.
There has inevitably been a good deal of waste. Instead of spending hours haunting public lavatories, or other pick-up points...
The BATHROOM??? EW!!!
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