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Charles Kingsley was an English clergyman, social reformer, historian, novelist and poet. A broad church priest of the Church of England, he is particularly associated with Christian socialism, Anti-Catholicism, the working men's college, and forming labour cooperatives, which failed, but encouraged later working reforms. He is known for his novels Yeast (1848), Alton Locke (1850), Hypatia (1853),…
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Born 12 June 1819 · Died 23 January 1875 · Q353238
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As a merger of Edgehill College and Grenville College
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The composer Cyril Rootham wrote a musical setting of Kingsley's poem Andromeda
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Republished as The Story of Perseus and the Gorgon's Head
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In Bloomsbury, London, and named after Kingsley was founded by teetotallers, who admired Kingsley for his political views and his ideas on social reform
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Was entitled, Charles Kingsley, his Letters and Memories of his Life
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Died 1875-01-23.
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“Um dever adiado volta carregando nas costas sete deveres novos.”
“On the Death of a Certain Journal", st. 5, p. 138.”
And reported to his wife, Francis Eliza Grenfell Kingsley
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Was made a canon of Westminster Abbey
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“The Knight's Leap", st. 3, in Poems: Collected Edition (London: Macmillan and Co., 1872), p. 287.”
Agreed to become the 19th president of the Birmingham and Midland Institute
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Kingsley resigned his Cambridge professorship and served from 1870 to 1873 as a canon of Chester Cathedral
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And sent letters in 1863 discussing Huxley's early ideas on agnosticism
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Career landmark: Regius Professor of History, Cambridge University (1860–1869).
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Became Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge, and, in 1861, a private tutor to the Prince of Wales
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Was appointed chaplain to Queen Victoria
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Became Rector of Eversley in Hampshire
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And graduated first class in classics, and senior optime in 1842
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Born 1819-06-12.
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