Scotland, the Isle of Wight and Adelaide

Having been brought up in the shadow of his famous father, Alfred, and known about ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’, ‘The Lady of Shalott’, and much else besides, Hallam Tennyson no doubt wished to map out a successful life of his own. Educated at Marlborough College and Trinity College, Cambridge, he served as personal secretary and biographer to his father. Early childhood was spent at the family home on the Isle of Wight, Farringford House, to where one of our two covers was posted.