Introduction

Biography

Charles was the se­cond son of min­is­ter Charles Kings­ley. His mo­ther was the daugh­ter of Na­than Lu­cas, an Eng­lish­man liv­ing in Bar­ba­dos, West In­dies.

He en­tered Mag­da­lene Col­lege, Cam­bridge, in 1838, and gra­du­ate­d first class in class­ics, and sen­ior op­ti­me.

Kingsley was sub­se­quent­ly rec­tor of Ev­ers­ley (1844–75), pri­vate chap­lain to Queen Vic­tor­ia (1859), his­to­ry pro­fess­or at Cam­bridge (1860–69), ca­non of Ches­ter (1869–73) and ca­non of West­min­ster (1873–75).

Works

Kingsley wrote nu­mer­ous prose works and poe­ms; the lat­ter were not in­tend­ed as hymns, but some have come in­to use as such.

His works in­clude:

• Saint’s Tra­ge­dy, 1848
• Yeast, 1849
• Alton Locke, 1849
• Hypatia, 1853
• Westward Ho, 1855
• Water Ba­bies, 1863
• Roman and Teu­ton, 1864