1819
Charles Kingsley, English priest, historian, and author (died 1875)
Charles Kingsley, English priest, historian, and author (died 1875)
Charles Kingsley, English priest, historian, and author (died 1875)
Charles Kingsley
English clergyman, historian and novelist (1819–1875)
- Born
- 1819
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), Westward Ho! (1855), The Water-Babies (1863), and Hereward the Wake (1866).