From the Westminster Abbey website; Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate, died on 6th October 1892 at his home in Haslemere, Surrey. On October 11th the coffin was brought to Westminster Abbey and lay overnight in St Faith's chapel. The next day the funeral was attended by thousands of mourners. The Abbey organist, Frederick Bridge, set to music words from Tennyson's 'Crossing the Bar'.
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