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The Tennyson boys? (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

alfred

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(Other definitions for alfred that I've seen before include "King of Wessex, known as "the Great"" , "King after Ethelred" , "Saxon king" , "... the Great, 9th-century Anglo-Saxon king" , "Cake-burning king" .)

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