Alfred Lord Ternnyson, British Poet Laureate (1809-1892), a dedicated pipe smoker and, though he was a much-photographed man for his time, I haven't been able to find a photo of him actually with one of his pipes. He is known to have had a rack of 14 pipes (including a Powhatan Native American pipe sent him from the USA, which he also smoked), using them in a fortnightly rotation. Photos of his pipes are out there on the web, but all those I've found are either copyrighted or in non-shareable .webp format - but they include a couple of clays, a straight Meerschaum egg and a bent Meer egg with an amber stem, the shank twice mended with white metal collars, clearly much smoked and loved. What he enjoyed in his pipe, who knows? Perhaps there's an archive of his personal papers somewhere, like his former home at Farringford Manor on the Isle of Wight, which includes detailed bills from his tobacconist...
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