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Charles Tennyson Turner (1808–1879)
Turner, Charles Tennyson. An English poet, brother of Alfred Tennyson; born at Somersby, Lincolnshire, July 4, 1808; died at Cheltenham, April 25, 1879. He assumed the name of Turner (1835) by royal license, having inherited some property from his great-uncle, Rev. Samuel Turner. Besides ‘Poems of Two Brothers,’ written in collaboration with Alfred, he wrote: ‘Sonnets and Fugitive Pieces’ (1830); ‘Sonnets’ (1864); ‘Small Tableaux’ (1868); ‘Sonnets, Lyrics, and Translations’ (1873); ‘Collected Sonnets, Old and New’ (1880). (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).