On New Year’s Day, or thereabouts, I have the habit of reading “Ring out wild bells,” the Tennyson poem, from In Memoriam ... Apparently, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, did not.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate ... the fourth of many children of the Reverend Dr George Tennyson and Elizabeth (Fytche). He was educated at Louth and Trinity College, Cambridge. In Memoriam was ...