We regret to record the death of Canon Kingsley, at
the age of 55. He had been attacked some weeks since with an inflammation of the lungs, and though the inflammation was subdued, died on January 23 of the consequent exhaustion. He was buried in his own parish church of Eversley, amidst a great concourse of mourners, the body, by his special request, being laid in an =- bricked grave. The coffin, we fear, his relatives did not venture to dispense with. We publish elsewhere an estimate of his charac- ter and his genius, and need only mention here that he was the son of the Rev. Charles Kingsley, a member of an old Cheshire family, and at the time of his son's birth (1819) Vicar of Hblme, near Dart- moor. After obtaining a First Class in classics at Cambridge, and a Senior Optime in mathematics, he took orders in 1842, and in 1843 accepted the rectory of Eversley, worth £500 a year, which he has ever since held. From the first it was impossible that he should rise to high preferment in the Church, he being con- stitutionally incapable of concealing his opinions, which in those days were considered ultra-Radical ; but in 1869 he obtained a Canonry of Chester, which he subsequently exchanged for one in Westminster Abbey. Later in life his opinions moderated, but he died as he had lived, a Broad Churchman, hating meanness, effeminacy, injustice, and above all thiligs, the oppression of the poor.
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