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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, novelist and poet. He is particularly associated with Christian socialism , the working men's college , and forming labour cooperatives , which failed, but encouraged later working reforms.
Kingsley was established in January 2009 as a merger of Edgehill College and Grenville College. The school's namesake is that of novelist Charles Kingsley, author of the locally-based adventure novel Westward Ho! (1855). Edgehill College was founded in 1884 by the Methodist Church of Great Britain. [2]
The churchyard is the burial-place of Charles Kingsley, who for 35 years was rector of the parish. Kingsley was a significant author and commentator in the 19th century: his novels include The Water Babies and Westward Ho!. He was also a social critic and an early founder of modern Christian socialism. One of his poems, "The Bad Squire", is ...
Chandler's Ford Infant School, Chandler's Ford; Charles Kingsley's CE Primary School, Eversley; Chawton CE Primary School, Chawton; Cherbourg Primary School, Eastleigh; Cheriton Primary School, Cheriton; Cherrywood Community Primary School, Farnborough; Chiltern Primary School, Basingstoke; Church Crookham Junior School, Fleet; Clanfield Junior ...
Statue of Thomas Hughes at Rugby School.Hughes's 1857 novel Tom Brown's School Days did much to promote muscular Christianity throughout the English-speaking world.. Muscular Christianity is a religious movement that originated in England in the mid-19th century, characterized by a belief in patriotic duty, discipline, self-sacrifice, masculinity, and the moral and physical beauty of athleticism.
The school was founded as Leamington High School as a girls' school in 1884 by Rose Kingsley, daughter of the writers Frances and Charles Kingsley. [3] The founding Girls' Public Day School Company head was Florence Gadesden who was a graduate of Girton College.
The full title of Kingsley's novel is Westward Ho! Or The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight of Burrough, in the County of Devon, in the reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty, Queen Elizabeth, Rendered into Modern English by Charles Kingsley. This elaborate title is intended to reflect the mock-Elizabethan style of the novel. [4]
The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby is a children's novel by Charles Kingsley. [1] Written in 1862–1863 as a serial for Macmillan's Magazine, it was first published in its entirety in 1863. It was written as part satire in support of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species. The book was extremely popular in the United Kingdom and ...