Laureate later an annual "terse of Canary wine." To Pye an allowance of £27 was made instead of the wine. Tennyson drew £72 a year from the Lord Chamberlain's department, and £27 from the Lord Steward's in lieu of the "butt of sack." Laureate In English, the word laureate has come to signify eminence or association with literary awards or military glory. It is also used for winners of the Nobel Prize, Gandhi Peace Award and the Student Peace Prize. In ancient Greece, the laurel ("Laurus nobilis") was sacred to Apollo and as such sprigs of it were fashioned into a
Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate at the pleasure of both the Speaker of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Commons, with the maximum term of office set at two years. The position comes with an annual stipend of $20,000, up to $13,000 in travel expenses annually, a budget for administrative expenses and translation/adaptation into Canada's second official language. In order to be chosen for the position, a poet must have: Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate The Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate is the official poet laureate of Canada. The current poet laureate is Georgette LeBlanc, who was appointed in January 2018. The position is