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Camelot and King Arthur's Court, Knights of the Round Table, Guinevere, Sir Lancelot, Sir Galahad, and the search for the Holy Grail ... (The Holy Grail was Jesus' cup at the Last Supper.) Our imaginations soar with history and legend immortalized in "Idylls of the King," written 1859-85 by poet Alfred Lord Tennyson. Alfred Lord Tennyson embellished the medieval legend of the Lady of the Lake who gave the sword Excalibur to the courageous young King Arthur. Scenes of this were portrayed in Disney's 1963 animated musical fantasy movie, The Sword in the Stone. Born AUGUST 6, 1809, Alfred Lord...

Britain Times Online December 29, 2005 Man arrested over murder of Tennyson's gay great-grandson By Jenny Booth and agencies Police investigating the fatal stabbing of the 85-year-old great-grandson of the Victorian poet laureate Alfred, Lord Tennyson this morning arrested a 44-year-old man in West London. Beryl Hallam Augustine Tennyson, known to his friends as Hallam, was found dead in his bed after police were called to his house in Highgate at 11.20pm on December 21. He had suffered serious head injuries and several stab wounds. A post-mortem examination at St Thomas’ Hospital mortuary gave cause of death as stab wounds...

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...

Like many I was glued to the television in the days following the tragic terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. As it happened, I tended to tune to FOX. In those first days when FOX finally started to insert commercial breaks, they introduced those breaks with a series of inspirational quotes. One blurb they used time and time again was: “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. – Alfred Lord Tennyson” Most will recognize this as the last line of Tennyson’s masterful work “Ulysses.” The full thought is “. . . . and tho' we are ...