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Charles Kingsley

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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, social reformer, historian and novelist. [1]

75 relations: Agnosticism, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Alton Locke, Apologia Pro Vita Sua, Barnack, Bideford, Westward Ho! and Appledore Railway, Birmingham and Midland Institute, Bloomsbury, Bristol Grammar School, Broad church, Canon (priest), Catholic Church, Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Chanter, Cheshire West and Chester, Chester, Chester Cathedral, Chimney sweep, Christian socialism, Church of England, Clovelly, Cyril Rootham, Devon, Dictionary of National Biography, Edward John Eyre, Edward VII, Eversley, Evolution, Frederick Denison Maurice, George MacDonald, Great Hippocampus Question, Greek mythology, Grosvenor Museum, Helston, Henry Kingsley, Hereward the Wake (novel), Holne, Human evolution, Hypatia (novel), Jamaica Committee, John Henry Newman, John Ruskin, John Tyndall, King's College London, Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, Lucas Malet, Magdalene College, Cambridge, Mary Kingsley, Morant Bay rebellion, ..., North Devon, On the Origin of Species, Priest, Progressive Era, Pteridomania, Queen Victoria, Rector (ecclesiastical), Regius Professor of History (Cambridge), Sahara, Science & Education, Teetotalism, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, The Irish Times, The New York Times, The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby, Thomas Carlyle, Thomas Henry Huxley, Westminster Abbey, Westward Ho!, Westward Ho! (novel), Whitchurch, Hampshire, William James Dawson, Worker cooperative, Working Men's College, Yeast (novel). Expand index (25 more) »

Agnosticism

Agnosticism is the view that the existence of God, of the divine or the supernatural is unknown or unknowable.

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets.

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Alton Locke

Alton Locke is an 1850 novel, by Charles Kingsley, written in sympathy with the Chartist movement, in which Carlyle is introduced as one of the personages.

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Apologia Pro Vita Sua

Apologia Pro Vita Sua (Latin: A defence of one's own life) is John Henry Newman's defence of his religious opinions, published in 1864 in response to Charles Kingsley of the Church of England after Newman quit his position as the Anglican vicar of St.

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Barnack

Barnack is a village and civil parish, now in the Peterborough unitary authority of the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire, England.

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Bideford, Westward Ho! and Appledore Railway

The Bideford, Westward Ho! and Appledore Railway (B, WH & A, R) was a railway running in northwest Devon, England.

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Birmingham and Midland Institute

The Birmingham and Midland Institute (BMI), is an institution concerned with the promotion of education and learning in Birmingham, England.

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Bloomsbury

Bloomsbury is an area of the London Borough of Camden, between Euston Road and Holborn.

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Bristol Grammar School

Bristol Grammar School (BGS) is an English co-educational independent day school located in Tyndalls Park, Bristol.

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Broad church

Broad church is latitudinarian churchmanship in the Church of England in particular and Anglicanism in general.

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Canon (priest)

A canon (from the Latin canonicus, itself derived from the Greek κανονικός, kanonikós, "relating to a rule", "regular") is a member of certain bodies subject to an ecclesiastical rule.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin, (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic.

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Charlotte Chanter

Charlotte Kingsley Chanter (1828–1882) was a British writer best known for a book that helped set off a Victorian fad for collecting ferns in Devonshire.

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Cheshire West and Chester

Cheshire West and Chester is a unitary authority with borough status in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.

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Chester

Chester (Caer) is a walled city in Cheshire, England, on the River Dee, close to the border with Wales.

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Chester Cathedral

Chester Cathedral is a Church of England cathedral and the mother church of the Diocese of Chester.

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Chimney sweep

A chimney sweep is a person who clears ash and soot from chimneys.

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Christian socialism

Christian socialism is a form of religious socialism based on the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth.

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Church of England

The Church of England (C of E) is the state church of England.

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Clovelly

Clovelly is a small village in the Torridge district of Devon, England.

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Cyril Rootham

Cyril Bradley Rootham (5 October 1875 – 18 March 1938) was an English composer, educator and organist.

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Devon

Devon, also known as Devonshire, which was formerly its common and official name, is a county of England, reaching from the Bristol Channel in the north to the English Channel in the south.

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Dictionary of National Biography

The Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published from 1885.

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Edward John Eyre

Edward John Eyre (5 August 1815 – 30 November 1901) was an English land explorer of the Australian continent, colonial administrator, and a controversial Governor of Jamaica.

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Edward VII

Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor of India from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910.

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Eversley

Eversley is a village and civil parish in the Hart district of northeast Hampshire, England.

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Evolution

Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.

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Frederick Denison Maurice

John Frederick Denison Maurice (29 August 1805 – 1 April 1872), often known as F. D. Maurice, was an English Anglican theologian, a prolific author, and one of the founders of Christian socialism.

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George MacDonald

George MacDonald (10 December 1824 – 18 September 1905) was a Scottish author, poet and Christian minister.

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Great Hippocampus Question

The Great Hippocampus Question was a 19th-century scientific controversy about the anatomy of apes and human uniqueness.

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Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and teachings that belong to the ancient Greeks, concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices.

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Grosvenor Museum

Grosvenor Museum is a museum in Chester, Cheshire, England.

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Helston

Helston (Hellys) is a town and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

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Henry Kingsley

Henry Kingsley (2 January 1830 – 24 May 1876)A.

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Hereward the Wake (novel)

Hereward the Wake: Last of the English (also published as Hereward, the Last of the English) is an 1866 novel by Charles Kingsley.

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Holne

Holne is a village and civil parish on the southeastern slopes of Dartmoor in Devon, England.

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Human evolution

Human evolution is the evolutionary process that led to the emergence of anatomically modern humans, beginning with the evolutionary history of primates – in particular genus Homo – and leading to the emergence of Homo sapiens as a distinct species of the hominid family, the great apes.

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Hypatia (novel)

Hypatia, or New Foes with an Old Face is an 1853 novel by the English writer Charles Kingsley.

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Jamaica Committee

The Jamaica Committee was a group set up in Great Britain in 1865, which called for Edward Eyre, Governor of Jamaica, to be tried for his excesses in suppressing the Morant Bay rebellion of 1865.

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John Henry Newman

John Henry Newman, (21 February 1801 – 11 August 1890) was a poet and theologian, first an Anglican priest and later a Catholic priest and cardinal, who was an important and controversial figure in the religious history of England in the 19th century.

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John Ruskin

John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, as well as an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist.

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John Tyndall

John Tyndall FRS (2 August 1820 – 4 December 1893) was a prominent 19th-century physicist.

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King's College London

King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom, and a founding constituent college of the federal University of London.

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Lewis Carroll Shelf Award

The Lewis Carroll Shelf Award was an American literary award conferred on several books annually by the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Education annually from 1958 to 1979.

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Lucas Malet

Lucas Malet was the pseudonym of Mary St Leger Kingsley (4 June 1852 — 1931), a Victorian novelist.

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Magdalene College, Cambridge

Magdalene College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.

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Mary Kingsley

Mary Henrietta Kingsley (13 October 1862 – 3 June 1900) was an English ethnographer, scientific writer, and explorer whose travels throughout West Africa and resulting work helped shape European perceptions of African cultures and British imperialism.

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Morant Bay rebellion

The Morant Bay rebellion (11 October 1865) began with a protest march to the courthouse by hundreds of peasants led by preacher Paul Bogle in Morant Bay, Jamaica.

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North Devon

North Devon is a local government district in Devon, England.

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On the Origin of Species

On the Origin of Species (or more completely, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life),The book's full original title was On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.

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Priest

A priest or priestess (feminine) is a religious leader authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deities.

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Progressive Era

The Progressive Era was a period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States that spanned from the 1890s to the 1920s.

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Pteridomania

Pteridomania or Fern-Fever was a craze for ferns.

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Queen Victoria

Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death.

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Rector (ecclesiastical)

A rector is, in an ecclesiastical sense, a cleric who functions as an administrative leader in some Christian denominations.

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Regius Professor of History (Cambridge)

Regius Professor of History, prior to 2010 Regius Professor of Modern History, is one of the senior professorships in history at Cambridge University.

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Sahara

The Sahara (الصحراء الكبرى,, 'the Great Desert') is the largest hot desert and the third largest desert in the world after Antarctica and the Arctic.

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Science & Education

Science & Education: Contributions from History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science and Mathematics is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Springer Science+Business Media.

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Teetotalism

Teetotalism is the practice or promotion of complete personal abstinence from alcoholic beverages.

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The Autobiography of Charles Darwin

The Autobiography of Charles Darwin is an autobiography by the English naturalist Charles Darwin.

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The Irish Times

The Irish Times is an Irish daily broadsheet newspaper launched on 29 March 1859.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby

The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a children's novel by Charles Kingsley.

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Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle (4 December 17955 February 1881) was a Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, translator, historian, mathematician, and teacher.

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Thomas Henry Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley (4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895) was an English biologist specialising in comparative anatomy.

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Westminster Abbey

Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, is a large, mainly Gothic abbey church in the City of Westminster, London, England, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster.

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Westward Ho!

Westward Ho! is a seaside village near Bideford in Devon, England.

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Westward Ho! (novel)

Westward Ho! is an 1855 British historical novel by Charles Kingsley.

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Whitchurch, Hampshire

Whitchurch is a town in Hampshire, England.

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William James Dawson

William James Dawson (1854–1928) was an English clergyman, author, and the father of Coningsby Dawson.

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Worker cooperative

A worker cooperative, is a cooperative that is owned and self-managed by its workers.

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Working Men's College

The Working Men's College (or WMC), is among the earliest adult education institutions established in the United Kingdom, and Europe's oldest extant centre for adult education.

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Yeast (novel)

Yeast: A Problem (1848) was the first novel by the Victorian social and religious controversialist Charles Kingsley.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kingsley

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