 He died in 1845 and Tennyson got some financial help from Allen's insurance.Historically, it is not known whether Tennyson and Clare had met each other while they both stayed together in the area in the same period.But Clare's biographer Jonathan Bate speculates that although the two poets might not have met in the asylum, both used to take walks in the forest and also had a common friend; the son of poet Thomas Campbell.