DEATH OF THE CHARLES KINGSLEY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XII, Issue 4125, 2 February 1875, Page 3

DEATH OF THE CHARLES KINGSLEY.

Ix our cablegrams will be found the above brief announcement. In "Men of the Times" we find record that the Rev. Charles Kinsley, Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen, and to the Prince of Wales, and Canon of Chester, son of the late Rev. C. Kingsley, rector of Chelsea, was thereprcsentative of an ancient family of Cheshire, tho JCingloys of Kingsley, in the forest of Delamere, who joined the Parliamentary Cromwell, and afterwards Charles 11. under Monk. He was born at Holne Vicarage, on the borders of Dartmoor, Devon, June 12, 1819, and was educated at home until the age of fourteen, when ho became a pupil of the lCev. D. Coleridge, and afterwards a student at King's College, Loudon, whence he removed to Magdalen College, Cambridge, where he gained a scholarship and several prizes, taking a tirst-class in classics, and a second-class in mathematics. After devoting some time to preparation for the profession of the law, he entered the Church, became curate at Kversley, a moorland parish iu Hampshire, and that living becoming vacant, he was presented to it by the patron, the late Sir John Cope, Bart. Mr. Kingsley has mixed much with working men, as may be inferred from his "Alton Locke," and has taken part in various efforts to ameliorate the condition of the working classes, to such an extent as to have earned the name of the "Chartist Parson." He has dintinguished himself as a dramatic and lyric poet, the " Saint's Tragedy" having been published in 1810, and is the author of several novels. Jle has written "Phaeton: Loose Thoughts for Loose Thinkers," published in 1852;

44 Jlypatia, or .New Kocs with an Old Face," in 1603; "Alexandria and her Schools — Lectures," in 1854; "Westward Ho!" in 1855 ; "Two Years Ago," in 1857 ; " Miscellanies from Frazer's Magazine," in 1859; " The Water 15abies," in 1803 ; "The Roman and the Teuton," lectures delivered at Cambridge, in ISG4 ; " Horeward, the Last of the Knglish," in 1S0G; "The Hermits," in 1807; " I low and Why ?" in 1809; "At Last: a

Christmas in the West Indies," 2 vols., 1871 ; and various volumes of sermons. He -was appointed Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge in. 1859, and after resigning that post was made Canon of Chester iu ISG9.