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Charles Kingsley

(1819-1875), Novelist, Church of England clergyman and controversialist

Sitter in 47 portraits
Novelist and divine; ordained, 1842, and soon became associated with Christian Socialist movement; published tracts and novels, including Yeast, 1848, and Alton Lock, 1850, promoting Christian Socialism; appointed Professor of Modern History at Cambridge, 1860, and published The Water Babies, 1863. Often the centre of controversy, Kingsley nevertheless gained both public and royal approval in his later years.

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Charles Kingsley, by Daniel John Pound, after a photograph by  John Jabez Edwin Mayall - NPG D3492

Charles Kingsley

by Daniel John Pound, after a photograph by John Jabez Edwin Mayall
line engraving, published 1861
NPG D3492

Charles Kingsley, by Daniel John Pound, after a photograph by  John Jabez Edwin Mayall - NPG D3493

Charles Kingsley

by Daniel John Pound, after a photograph by John Jabez Edwin Mayall
line engraving, published 1861
NPG D3493

Charles Kingsley ('Men of the Day, No. 42.'), by Adriano Cecioni - NPG D43529

Charles Kingsley ('Men of the Day, No. 42.')

by Adriano Cecioni
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 30 March 1872
NPG D43529

Charles Kingsley, by Charles Henry Jeens, published by  Macmillan & Co - NPG D3494

Charles Kingsley

by Charles Henry Jeens, published by Macmillan & Co
stipple and line engraving, published 1876
NPG D3494

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