English clergyman, historian and novelist (1819–1875)
For the British yacht designer, see Charles Kingsley (yacht designer). For the English tennis player, see Charles Kingsley (tennis).
The Reverend
Charles Kingsley
Born
(1819-06-12)12 June 1819 Holne, Devon, England
Died
23 January 1875(1875-01-23) (aged 55) Eversley, Hampshire, England
Occupation
Clergyman, historian, novelist
Nationality
English
Alma mater
King's College London
Magdalene College, Cambridge
Period
19th century
Genre
Social Christianity
Literary movement
Christian socialism
Spouse
Frances Eliza Grenfell
Signature
Charles Kingsley (12 June 1819 – 23 January 1875) was a broad church priest of the Church of England, a university professor, social reformer, historian, novelist and poet. He is particularly associated with Christian socialism, the working men's college, and forming labour cooperatives, which failed, but encouraged later working reforms.
CharlesKingsley (12 June 1819 – 23 January 1875) was a broad church priest of the Church of England, a university professor, social reformer, historian...
George Kingsley and Mary Bailey. She came from a family of writers, as she was also the niece of novelists CharlesKingsley and Henry Kingsley. The family...
Ferdinand James M. Kingsley (born 13 February 1988) is a British actor. He is known for portraying the roles of Hamza Bey in the film Dracula Untold (2014)...
Rockfield, Monmouthshire, Wales. It was founded in 1963 by brothers Kingsley and Charles Ward. Rockfield is a two-studio facility consisting of The Coach...
Henry Kingsley (2 January 1830 – 24 May 1876) was an English novelist, brother of the better-known CharlesKingsley. He was an early exponent of muscular...
CharlesKingsley Meek FRGS FRAI (24 June 1885 – 27 March 1965), or just C. K. Meek, was a British anthropologist. He wrote about the northern and southern...
natural selection as an instrument of God's design, with the cleric CharlesKingsley seeing it as "just as noble a conception of Deity". In 1860, the publication...
(Tom Brown's School Days, 1857), John Ruskin (Unto This Last, 1862), CharlesKingsley (The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby, 1863), Frederick James...
CharlesKingsley Adams, CBE, FBA (17 June 1899 – 19 January 1971) was director, Keeper and Secretary of the National Portrait Gallery from 1951 to 1964...
Catholicism. In the nineteenth century, European literature, especially CharlesKingsley's 1853 novel Hypatia, romanticized her as "the last of the Hellenes"...
Frances Eliza Kingsley (ed.), CharlesKingsley: His Letters and Memories of His Life, Vol. I. New York: Fred De Fau, 1899, p. 162. Kingsley here cites Genesis...
Sir Ben Kingsley (born Krishna Pandit Bhanji; 31 December 1943) is an English actor. He has received accolades throughout his career spanning five decades...
Hughes and his 1857 novel Tom Brown's School Days, as well as writers CharlesKingsley and Ralph Connor. American President Theodore Roosevelt was raised...
In Eversley there is a primary school called CharlesKingsley's Primary School, founded by CharlesKingsley in 1853. In 2011, it was inspected by OFSTED...
machine Short circuit ratio (synchronous generator) Fitzgerald, A. E.; CharlesKingsley Jr.; Alexander Kusko (1972). "Chapter 6, Synchronous machines, steady...
some time before that date. In a letter of September 23, 1860, to CharlesKingsley, Huxley discussed his views extensively: I neither affirm nor deny...
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (/ˈlʌtwɪdʒ ˈdɒdʒsən/ LUT-wij DOJ-sən; 27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an...
had feared. One of the first responses to review copies came from CharlesKingsley, a Christian socialist country rector and novelist, who wrote that...
the Kingsley Club. Designed to support people with a stammer in the Philadelphia area, the club took inspiration for its name from CharlesKingsley. Kingsley...
published as a series of pamphlets in 1864 in response to an attack by CharlesKingsley against Newman's honesty. Though Newman's honesty had been widely questioned...
Ireland, Dublin. The novelist CharlesKingsley lived here as a child from 1831 to 1836, while his father, Rev. CharlesKingsley, served first as senior curate...
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