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Charles Kingsley (12 June 1819 – 23 January 1875) was a broad church priest of the Church of England, a university professor, historian and novelist. He is particularly associated with the West Country and northeast Hampshire. He was a friend and correspondent with Charles Darwin.〔Hale, Piers. "Darwin's Other Bulldog: Charles Kingsley and the Popularisation of Evolution in Victorian England." ''Science & Education'' 21, no. 7 (2012): 979. URL-http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/H/Piers.J.Hale-1/DARWIN'S%20OTHER%20BULLDOG%202011.pdf. 3rd page of the PDF.〕 ==Life and character== Kingsley was born in Holne, Devon, the elder of two sons of the Reverend Charles Kingsley and his wife Mary Lucas Kingsley. His brother, Henry Kingsley, also became a novelist. He spent his childhood in Clovelly, Devon, where his father was Curate 1826–1832 and Rector 1832–1836,〔Griggs, William, A Guide to All Saints Church, Clovelly, first published 1980, Revised Version 2010, p.7〕 and at Barnack, Northamptonshire and was educated at Bristol Grammar School and Helston Grammar School〔ODNB article by Norman Vance, ‘Kingsley, Charles (1819–1875)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, May 2006 (), accessed 13 April 2008.〕 before studying at King's College London, and the University of Cambridge. Charles entered Magdalene College, Cambridge, in 1838, and graduated in 1842. He chose to pursue a ministry in the church. From 1844, he was rector of Eversley in Hampshire. In 1859 he was appointed chaplain to Queen Victoria.〔Christine L. Krueger, (2009), ''Encyclopedia of British writers, 19th century'', page 194. ISBN 1438108702〕 In 1860, he was appointed Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge.〔 In 1861 he became a private tutor to the Prince of Wales.〔 In 1869 Kingsley resigned his Cambridge professorship and, from 1870 to 1873, was a canon of Chester Cathedral. While in Chester he founded the Chester Society for Natural Science, Literature and Art, which played an important part in the establishment of the Grosvenor Museum.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Information Sheet: Charles Kingsley )〕 In 1872 he accepted the Presidency of the Birmingham and Midland Institute and became its 19th President.〔Presidents of the BMI, BMI, nd (c.2005)〕 In 1873 he was made a canon of Westminster Abbey.〔 Kingsley died in 1875 and was buried in St Mary's Churchyard in Eversley. Kingsley sat on the 1866 Edward Eyre Defence Committee along with Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, Charles Dickens and Alfred Lord Tennyson, where he supported Jamaican Governor Edward Eyre's brutal suppression of the Morant Bay Rebellion against the Jamaica Committee. One of his daughters, Mary St Leger Kingsley, became known as a novelist under the pseudonym "Lucas Malet". Kingsley's life was written by his widow in 1877, entitled ''Charles Kingsley, his Letters and Memories of his Life''. Kingsley also received letters from Thomas Huxley in 1860 and later in 1863, discussing Huxley's early ideas on agnosticism. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charles Kingsley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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