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Alfred Austin, the Glossary

Alfred Austin (30 May 1835 – 2 June 1913) was an English poet who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1896, after an interval following the death of Tennyson, when the other candidates had either caused controversy or refused the honour.^[1]

61 relations: Alexander Mackenzie (composer), Alfred Henry Miles, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Anthony Trollope, Armenia, Ashford, Kent, Barrister, Benjamin Disraeli, Caricature, Carlton Club, Clitheroe, Common One, Congress of Berlin, Dewsbury (UK Parliament constituency), Edward VII, Frances Allitsen, George Mulock, George Saintsbury, George V, Hamidian massacres, Headingley, Herefordshire, Honiton (UK Parliament constituency), Hothfield, Howard William Kennard, Hymns to the Silence (book), In Memoriam A.H.H., Isa Blagden, Jameson Raid, John Dough and the Cherub, Joseph Knight (critic), Joseph Locke, L. Frank Baum, Leeds, Legum Doctor, Leslie Ward, Matthew Arnold, National Review (London), Otto von Bismarck, Owen Seaman, Percy Pitt, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, Queen Victoria, Robert Bridges, Robert Browning, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, St Mary's College, Oscott, St Marylebone Parish Church, Stonyhurst College, ... Expand index (11 more) »
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Alexander Mackenzie (composer)

Sir Alexander Campbell Mackenzie KCVO (22 August 1847 – 28 April 1935) was a Scottish composer, conductor and teacher best known for his oratorios, violin and piano pieces, Scottish folk music and works for the stage.

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Alfred Henry Miles

Alfred Henry Miles (26 February 1848 – 30 October 1929) was a prolific Victorian-age author, editor, anthologist, journalist, composer and lecturer who published hundreds of works on a wide range of topics, ranging from poetry (The Poets and the Poetry of the Century, 10 vols. (London: Hutchinson, 1891)), warfare (Wars of the Olden Times, Abraham to Cromwell) to household encyclopaedias with information for every conceivable contingency (The Household Oracle: A Popular Referee on Subjects of Household Enquiry), and even advice to the lovelorn (Wooing: Stories of the Course that Never Did Run Smooth by R.

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892), was an English poet. Alfred Austin and Alfred, Lord Tennyson are 19th-century English writers, British Poets Laureate and Victorian poets.

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Algernon Charles Swinburne

Algernon Charles Swinburne (5 April 1837 – 10 April 1909) was an English poet, playwright, novelist and critic. Alfred Austin and Algernon Charles Swinburne are Victorian poets.

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Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope (24 April 1815 – 6 December 1882) was an English novelist and civil servant of the Victorian era. Alfred Austin and Anthony Trollope are 19th-century British novelists and Victorian novelists.

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Armenia

Armenia, officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of West Asia.

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Ashford, Kent

Ashford is a town in the Ashford district, in the county of Kent, England.

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Barrister

A barrister is a type of lawyer in common law jurisdictions.

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Benjamin Disraeli

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British statesman, Conservative politician and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Alfred Austin and Benjamin Disraeli are Victorian novelists.

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Caricature

A caricature is a rendered image showing the features of its subject in a simplified or exaggerated way through sketching, pencil strokes, or other artistic drawings (compare to: cartoon).

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Carlton Club

The Carlton Club is a private members' club in the St James's area of London, England.

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Clitheroe

Clitheroe is a town and civil parish in the Borough of Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England; it is located north-west of Manchester.

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Common One

Common One is the twelfth studio album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, released in 1980.

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Congress of Berlin

The Congress of Berlin (13 June – 13 July 1878) was a diplomatic conference to reorganise the states in the Balkan Peninsula after the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878), which had been won by Russia against the Ottoman Empire.

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Dewsbury (UK Parliament constituency)

Dewsbury was a constituency created in 1868 and abolished in 2024.

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Edward VII

Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910.

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Frances Allitsen

Mary Frances Allitsen (30 December 1848 – 1 October 1912) was an English composer.

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George Mulock

Captain George Francis Arthur Mulock, DSO, RN, FRGS (7 February 1882 – 26 December 1963) was an Anglo-Irish Royal Navy officer, cartographer and polar explorer who participated in an expedition to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition, 1901–04.

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George Saintsbury

George Edward Bateman Saintsbury, FBA (23 October 1845 – 28 January 1933), was an English critic, literary historian, editor, teacher, and wine connoisseur.

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George V

George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936.

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Hamidian massacres

The Hamidian massacres also called the Armenian massacres, were massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in the mid-1890s.

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Headingley

Headingley is a suburb of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, approximately two miles out of the city centre, to the north west along the A660 road.

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Herefordshire

Herefordshire is a ceremonial county in the West Midlands region of England.

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Honiton (UK Parliament constituency)

Honiton was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Honiton in east Devon, formerly represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Hothfield

Hothfield is a village and civil parish in the Ashford Borough of Kent, England and is 3 miles north-west of Ashford on the A20.

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Howard William Kennard

Sir Howard William Kennard GCMG, CVO (23 March 1878 – 12 November 1955) was a British diplomat.

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Hymns to the Silence (book)

Hymns to the Silence: Inside the Words and Music of Van Morrison is a book published via Continuum Books in June 2010, written by English academic Peter Mills.

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In Memoriam A.H.H.

The poem In Memoriam A.H.H. (1850) by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, is an elegy for his Cambridge friend Arthur Henry Hallam, who died of cerebral haemorrhage at the age of twenty-two years, in Vienna in 1833.

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Isa Blagden

Isa or Isabella Jane Blagden (30 June 1816 or 1817 – 20 January 1873) was an English-language novelist, speaker, and poet born in the East Indies or India, who spent much of her life among the English community in Florence. Alfred Austin and Isa Blagden are 19th-century English writers.

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Jameson Raid

The Jameson Raid (Afrikaans: Jameson-inval,, 29 December 1895 – 2 January 1896) was a botched raid against the South African Republic (commonly known as the Transvaal) carried out by British colonial administrator Leander Starr Jameson, under the employment of Cecil Rhodes.

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John Dough and the Cherub

John Dough and the Cherub is a children's fantasy novel, written by American author L. Frank Baum, about a living gingerbread man and his adventures.

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Joseph Knight (critic)

(John) Joseph Knight (1829–1907) was an English dramatic critic and theatre historian.

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Joseph Locke

Joseph Locke FRSA (9 August 1805 – 18 September 1860) was an English civil engineer of the nineteenth century, particularly associated with railway projects.

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L. Frank Baum

Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) was an American author best known for his children's fantasy books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part of a series.

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Leeds

Leeds is a city in West Yorkshire, England.

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Legum Doctor

Legum Doctor (LL.D.) or, in English, Doctor of Laws, is a doctorate-level academic degree in law or an honorary degree, depending on the jurisdiction.

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Leslie Ward

Sir Leslie Matthew Ward (21 November 1851 – 15 May 1922) was a British portrait artist and caricaturist who over four decades painted 1,325 portraits which were regularly published by Vanity Fair, under the pseudonyms "Spy" and "Drawl".

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Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 – 15 April 1888) was an English poet and cultural critic. Alfred Austin and Matthew Arnold are Victorian poets.

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National Review (London)

The National Review was founded in 1883 by the English writers Alfred Austin and William Courthope.

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Otto von Bismarck

Otto, Prince of Bismarck, Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen, Duke of Lauenburg (1 April 1815 – 30 July 1898; born Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck) was a Prussian statesman and diplomat who oversaw the unification of Germany.

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Owen Seaman

Sir Owen Seaman, 1st Baronet (18 September 1861 – 2 February 1936) was a British writer, journalist and poet.

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Percy Pitt

Percy Pitt (4 January 1869 – 23 November 1932) was an English organist, conductor, composer, and Director of Music of the BBC from 1924 to 1930.

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Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom

The British Poet Laureate is an honorary position appointed by the monarch of the United Kingdom, currently on the advice of the prime minister. Alfred Austin and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom are British Poets Laureate.

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Queen Victoria

Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901.

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Robert Bridges

Robert Seymour Bridges (23 October 1844 – 21 April 1930) was a British poet who was Poet Laureate from 1913 to 1930. Alfred Austin and Robert Bridges are 20th-century English poets, British Poets Laureate and Victorian poets.

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Robert Browning

Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him high among the Victorian poets. Alfred Austin and Robert Browning are 19th-century English writers and Victorian poets.

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Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (3 February 183022 August 1903), known as Lord Salisbury, was a British statesman and Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom three times for a total of over thirteen years.

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St Mary's College, Oscott

St Mary's College in New Oscott, Birmingham, often called Oscott College, is the Roman Catholic seminary of the Archdiocese of Birmingham in England and one of the three seminaries of the Catholic Church in England and Wales.

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St Marylebone Parish Church

St Marylebone Parish Church is an Anglican church on the Marylebone Road in London.

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Stonyhurst College

Stonyhurst College is a co-educational Catholic private school, adhering to the Jesuit tradition, on the Stonyhurst Estate, Lancashire, England. Alfred Austin and Stonyhurst College are People educated at Stonyhurst College.

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T. Fisher Unwin

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Taunton (UK Parliament constituency)

Taunton was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and its predecessors from 1295 to 2010, taking its name from the town of Taunton in Somerset.

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The Idler (1892–1911)

The Idler was an illustrated monthly magazine published in Great Britain from 1892 to 1911.

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Thomas Adolphus Trollope

Thomas Adolphus Trollope (29 April 1810 – 11 November 1892) was an English writer who was the author of more than 60 books.

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University of London

The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in post-nominals) is a federal public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom.

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Van Morrison

Sir George Ivan Morrison (born 31 August 1945) is a singer-songwriter and musician from Northern Ireland whose recording career spans seven decades.

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Vanity Fair (British magazine)

Vanity Fair was a British weekly magazine that was published from 1868 to 1914.

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Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (17 August 1840 – 10 September 1922), sometimes spelt Wilfred, was an English poet and writer. Alfred Austin and Wilfrid Scawen Blunt are English Roman Catholics, People educated at Stonyhurst College and Victorian poets.

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William Morris

William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, poet, artist, writer, and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts movement. Alfred Austin and William Morris are Victorian novelists and Victorian poets.

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William Watson (poet)

Sir William Watson (2 August 185811 August 1935) was an English poet, popular in his time for the celebratory content, and famous for the controversial political content, of his verse.

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Yorkshire

Yorkshire is an area of Northern England which was historically a county.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Austin

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See also

British Poets Laureate

People from Headingley

People from the Borough of Ashford

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