Timeline Tuesday 19 November 1850

Events on Tuesday 19 November 1850 1

• 1850 Alfred Tennyson becomes British Poet Laureate Tennyson succeeds Wordsworth after publishing In Memoriam Alfred Tennyson was appointed Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, a post he held until his death in 1892. The appointment followed the publication of his elegy In Memoriam A.H.H., written for his friend Arthur Hallam, which cemented his reputation as the leading poet of the Victorian age.