KINGSLEY, Charles, English clergyman, novelist and poet: b. Holne Vicarage, near Dartmouth, Devonshire, 12 June 1819; d. Eversley, Hampshire, 23 Jan. 1275. He was a pupil of Derwent Coleridge(q.v.) from whose care he passed to King's College, London, and thence to Magdalen College, Cambridge, where he was graduated with high honors in 1842. Soon after graduation he took orders in the Established Church and obtained the curacy of Eversley, and became its rector in 1844. This living he retained till his death, but he also held in succession two canonries, one in the cathe dral of Chester (1869-73), and one in the chan ter of Westminster from 1873 till his death. From 1860 to 1869 he was professor of modern history at Cambridge. Early in his career as a clergyman of the Church of England. he asso ciated himself with F. D. Maurice, Julius Hare and others, both in their religious views and in their social aims. With them he considered it the peculiar duty of the Church to improve the condition of the working-classes, not only by inspiring them with Christian feeling and Christian principle, but also by encouraging and aiding them in bettering their material position. With the latter object he was a strong cate of co-operative association. His first erary works of importance, 'Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet' (1850), and 'Yeast, a lem' (1851), gave expression to his sentiments on social questions, and both of them, but cially the first, made a great impression when they appeared. The principal of his later
els are (Hypatia' (1853), (Westward Ho (1855), perhaps the most popular of his stories, and 'Hereward the 1\rake,"Last of the lish' (1866). Other works his are or The Wonders of the Sli, re' ; 'Town ogy' ; 'The Roman and the Teuton,' historical lectures; 'The Water Babies,' a fairy-tale of ence; and 'At Last,' a visit to the West Indies. He was also the author of numerous sermons, lectures and essays, and of various poems, the chief of which are (The Saint's Tragedy,' and 'Andromeda,' the latter one of the most cessful experiments in English hexameter. He was a strong opponent of the Tractarian ment in the Church of England. A statement he made in a review, especially directed at John Henry Newman, that regard for truth for its own sake was not a characteristic of Roman Catholic theologians, was followed by some sharp correspondence, and incidentally was the cause of the writing of the famous "Apologia') of Newman. Consult (Letters and Memories of Charles Kingsley,' by his wife (1877). See ; 'THE WATER BABIES' ; 'WESTWARD