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Alfred Tennyson, first baron Tennyson, was born in Somersby, Tennyshire, on August 6, 1809. He attended the Louth Grammar School between 1815 and 1820 and was subsequently educated at home by his father, the Reverend George Clayton Tennyson.

Ted Hughes was born Edward James Hughes in Mytholmroyd, a mill town in Yorkshire, England. He was the youngest child of William Henry Hughes, a veteran of World War I, and his wife Edith, a descendant of Nicholas Farrar, founder of the dissenting religious community of Little Gidding. Surrounded from infancy by wild moorland, Hughes developed a passion for animals, first expressed in ...