POET LAUREATE'S DEATH.
(Press Assn.— -By Telegraph— Copyright.) (Received June 3, 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, June 2. Obituary : i Alfred Austin, - x Poet Laureate. The Poet Laureate, who succeeded Tennyson in 1896, was 78 years of age. He was for many, years a writer for the Standard and Quarterly Review. He was born at Leeds, being the son. of a merchant, i^-fle'. graduated at- London University^bM on "fthe death" of his father devoted- himself -to foreign/ travel and literature ... He, ., composed 'many poems, andsw-ae.he author of a number of published works.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13091, 3 June 1913, Page 3
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90POET LAUREATE'S DEATH. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13091, 3 June 1913, Page 3
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