Charles Kingsley was a broad church priest of the Church of England, a university professor, social reformer, historian, novelist and poet.
18 Facts About Charles Kingsley
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Charles Kingsley is particularly associated with Christian socialism, the working men's college, and forming labour cooperatives, which failed, but encouraged later working reforms.
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Charles Kingsley was a friend and correspondent of Charles Darwin.
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Charles Kingsley was the father of the novelist Lucas Malet and the uncle of the traveller and scientist Mary Kingsley.
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Charles Kingsley chose to pursue priesthood in the Anglican Church.
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One of his daughters, Mary St Leger Charles Kingsley, became known as a novelist under the pseudonym Lucas Malet.
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Charles Kingsley received letters from Thomas Huxley in 1860 and in 1863 letters discussing Huxley's early ideas on agnosticism.
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Charles Kingsley died of pneumonia on 23 January 1875 at Eversley, Hampshire, aged 55.
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Charles Kingsley was sympathetic to the idea of evolution and was one of the first to welcome Charles Darwin's book On the Origin of Species.
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Charles Kingsley was influenced by Frederick Denison Maurice, and was close to many Victorian thinkers and writers, including the Scottish writer George MacDonald.
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Charles Kingsley was highly critical of Roman Catholicism and his argument in print with John Henry Newman, accusing him of untruthfulness and deceit, prompted the latter to write his Apologia Pro Vita Sua.
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Charles Kingsley wrote poetry and political articles, as well as several volumes of sermons.
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Charles Kingsley coined the term pteridomania in his 1855 book Glaucus, or the Wonders of the Shore.
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Charles Kingsley was a fervent Anglo-Saxonist, and was seen as a major proponent of the ideology, particularly in the 1840s.
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Charles Kingsley proposed that the English people were "essentially a Teutonic race, blood-kin to the Germans, Dutch, Scandinavians".
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Charles Kingsley suggested there was a "strong Norse element in Teutonism and Anglo-Saxonism".
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Charles Kingsley believed the ancestors of Anglo-Saxons, Norse and Germanic peoples had physically fought beside the god Odin, and that the British monarchy was genetically descended from the god.
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Charles Kingsley has been accused of intensely antagonistic views of the Irish, whom he described in derogatory terms.