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Edward . b. Hollo way, London 12 May 1812; the youngest of 21 children; made tinted drawings of birds, . 1827, which he sold at from 9d. to 4s. each; draughtsman in gardens of Zoological Society 1831; engaged at Know sley residence of Earl of Derby 1832–6, drew the plates for The Know sley Menagerie 1846; a drawing master at Rome 1837 etc.; originator of the nonsense verse of which he published 4 volumes; travelled in South Europe and Palestine sketching 1847 etc.; gave drawing le ons to the Queen about 1840; exhibited 19 pictures at R.A., 5 at B.I. and 4 at Suffolk st. 1836–73; Tennyson wrote verses addre ed To E. Lear on his travels in Greece in ‘Travels in Albania’ 1846; author of Illustrations of the family of the Psittacidæ 1832; Views in Rome and its environs 1841; Illustrated excursions in Italy 1846; The Book of Nonsense 1846, 27 ed. 1889; Journal of a landscape painter in Albania 1851; published Poems and songs by A. Tennyson, set to music by E. L., London 1859, nine numbers. d. Villa Tennyson, San Remo 29 Jany. 1888. Tennyson’s Poems illustrated by E. Lear (1889), portrait ; E. Lear’s Nonsense songs and stories 6 ed. (1888) memoir pp. 5–7.