Charles Kingsley

Charles Kingsley was born in 1819 in Holne, Devon, the son of a clergyman, and spent part of his boyhood in the Fens and in Clovelly. He studied at King's College London and Magdalene College, Cambridge, and in 1844 became rector of Eversley in Hampshire, where he served for the rest of his life. He supported the Christian socialist movement, which sought to improve the lives of working people, and wrote novels about social conditions, such as Alton Locke. His historical novels include Hypatia and Westward Ho!, an adventure set in the Elizabethan era. For his children he wrote The Heroes (1856), retelling the Greek myths of Perseus, Theseus and the Argonauts, and The Water-Babies (1863), a fantasy about a young chimney sweep. Kingsley was an amateur naturalist who welcomed Darwin's theory of evolution. He was a chaplain to Queen Victoria, professor of modern history at Cambridge and a canon of Westminster. He died at Eversley in 1875.

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Faith: A British clergyman, ordained in 1842, who served as parish priest at Eversley. Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica