The present Lord Tennyson, when Governor of South Australia, in the course of his official duties, in March, 1902, unveiled a memorial to his kinsman on Mount Lofty, and in April of the same year a second one in Encounter Bay.

The following table illustrates the relationship between him who wrote of "the long wash of Australasian seas" and him who knew them as discoverer: Matthew Flinders (father of Matthew Flinders the navigator) married as his second wife Elizabeth Weekes, whose sister, Hannah Weekes, married Willingham Franklin of Spilsby and had at least two children: 1.

Sir John Franklin, born 1786, midshipman of the Investigator, Arctic explorer, Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) 1837 to 1844, died 1847.
2.

Sarah Franklin, married Henry Sellwood, solicitor, of Horncastle, in 1812 and had at least two children: 2.

Louisa Sellwood married Charles Tennyson-Turner, poet, brother of Alfred Tennyson.
1.