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Which poet laureate did Alfred, Lord Tennyson succeed?
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Portrait of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, lithograph published in The Modern Portrait Gallery, 1890.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson succeeded William Wordsworth as the poet laureate of Britain in 1850.12