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Kingsley (CHARLES an English author born)

CHARLES, an English author; born in Holne, near Dartmoor, Devonshire, June 13, 1819. He became vicar (1842) of Eversley, where he spent KING'S MOUNTAIN a large part of his life. In 1848 he published "The Saint's Tragedy," a drama in verse on the story of St. Elizabeth of Hungary. This was followed by a series of novels, "Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet" (1849), which led to the establishment of co-operative associations in England, "Yeast" (1851); "Hypatia" (1853); "Westward Ho!" (1855); "The Water Babies" (1863). Of his verse, "Poems," chiefly lyric, appeared in 1856, and "Andromeda and Other Poems" in 1858. "Lectures delivered in America" (1875). His controversy with John Henry (afterward Cardinal) Newman, in 1864, led to the latter publishing his celebrated "Apologia pro Vita Sua."

Kingsley became Professor of Modern History at Cambridge in 1860, chaplain to the queen in 1860, canon of Westminster in 1873. He died in Eversley, Hampshire, Jan. 23, 1875.