Editing Charles Kingsley (section)

==Life and character==
[[File:Charles Kingsley Vanity Fair 30 March 1872.jpg|thumb|left|Caricature by [[Adriano Cecioni]] published in [[Vanity Fair (UK magazine)|''Vanity Fair'']] in 1872.]]
Kingsley was born in [[Holne]], [[Devon]], the elder son of the Reverend Charles Kingsley and his wife, Mary Lucas Kingsley. His brother [[Henry Kingsley]] (1830–1876) and sister [[Charlotte Chanter]] (1828–1882) also became writers. He was the father of the novelist [[Lucas Malet]] (Mary St. Leger Kingsley, 1852–1931) and the uncle of the traveller and scientist [[Mary Kingsley]] (1862–1900).

Charles Kingsley's childhood was spent in [[Clovelly]], Devon, where his father was curate in 1826–1832 and rector in 1832–1836,<ref>William Griggs, ''A Guide to All Saints Church, Clovelly'', first published 1980, Revised Version 2010, p. 7.</ref> and at [[Barnack]], Northamptonshire. He was educated at [[Bristol Grammar School]] and [[Helston]] Grammar School<ref name="ODNB">{{Cite ODNB |first=Norman |last=Vance |title=Kingsley, Charles (1819–1875) |id=15617}}</ref> before studying at [[King's College London]] and the University of Cambridge. Charles entered [[Magdalene College, Cambridge]], in 1838, and graduated first class in classics, and senior optime in 1842.<ref>{{acad |id=KNGY838C |name=Kingsley, Charles}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/k/i/n/g/kingsley_c.htm | title=Charles Kingsley }}</ref> He chose to pursue priesthood in the Anglican Church. In 1844, he became [[rector (ecclesiastical)|Rector]] of [[Eversley]] in [[Hampshire]]. In 1859, he was appointed chaplain to [[Queen Victoria]].<ref name="Krueger2014">{{Cite book |last=Krueger |first=Christine L. |title=Encyclopedia of British Writers, 19th and 20th Centuries |url={{Google books |plain-url=yes |id=Dnqi3gRxgvQC |page=193}} |year=2014 |publisher=Infobase Publishing |isbn=978-1-4381-0870-4}}</ref><ref name=EB1911>{{EB1911 |wstitle=Kingsley, Charles |volume=15 |page=817 |noprescript=1}}</ref> In 1860, he became [[Regius Professor of Modern History (Cambridge)|Regius Professor of Modern History]] at the University of Cambridge,<ref name="Krueger2014"/><ref name=EB1911/> and, in 1861, a private tutor to the [[Edward VII|Prince of Wales]].<ref name="Krueger2014"/>

In 1869, Kingsley resigned his Cambridge professorship and served from 1870 to 1873 as a [[canon (priest)|canon]] of [[Chester Cathedral]]. While there, he founded the [[Chester]] Society for Natural Science, Literature and Art, which was prominent in the establishment of the [[Grosvenor Museum]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk/visiting/museums/grosvenor_museum/information_sheets/charles_kingsley.aspx |title=Information Sheet: Charles Kingsley |access-date=19 April 2010 |publisher=[[Cheshire West and Chester]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716142034/http://www.cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk/visiting/museums/grosvenor_museum/information_sheets/charles_kingsley.aspx |archive-date=16 July 2011 |df=dmy-all}}</ref> In 1872, he agreed to become the 19th president of the [[Birmingham and Midland Institute]].<ref>Presidents of the BMI, BMI, nd (c. 2005).</ref> In 1873, he was made a canon of [[Westminster Abbey]].<ref name="Krueger2014"/>

Kingsley sat on the 1866 Edward Eyre Defence Committee along with [[Thomas Carlyle]], [[John Ruskin]], [[Charles Dickens]], [[John Tyndall]], and [[Alfred Lord Tennyson|Alfred Tennyson]], where he supported Jamaican Governor [[Edward Eyre]]'s brutal suppression of the [[Morant Bay Rebellion]] against the [[Jamaica Committee]]. Kingsley was a friend and colleague of [[Charles Darwin]].<ref name="Hale2011">{{Cite journal |last1=Hale |first1=Piers J. |title=Darwin's Other Bulldog: Charles Kingsley and the Popularisation of Evolution in Victorian England |journal=Science & Education |volume=21 |issue=7 |year=2011 |pages=977–1013 |issn=0926-7220 |doi=10.1007/s11191-011-9414-8 |s2cid=144142263 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304022916/http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/H/Piers.J.Hale-1/DARWIN'S%20OTHER%20BULLDOG%202011.pdf
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One of his daughters, Mary St Leger Kingsley, became known as a novelist under the pseudonym [[Lucas Malet]].<ref name=EB1911/> 
Kingsley's biography, written by his widow in 1877, was entitled, ''Charles Kingsley, his Letters and Memories of his Life.''<ref name=EB1911/>

Kingsley received letters from [[Thomas Henry Huxley|Thomas Huxley]] in 1860, and sent letters in 1863 discussing Huxley's early ideas on [[agnosticism]].