From entries in Comic, Curious and Quirky: News Stories from Centuries Past, by Rona Levin, a collection of British newspaper articles published this month by the British Library.

Burnley Express, October 3, 1892
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, after a few days’ illness, died at 1.30am on Thursday morning at Aldworth, near Haslemere. Sir Andrew Clarke, the famous physician, who was at the bedside of the distinguished poet, says: “Lord Tennyson has had a gloriously beautiful death. In all my experience I have never witnessed anything more glorious. There was no artificial light [in] the chamber, and all was darkness but for…