Henry Kingsley


Henry Kingsley was an English novelist, brother of the betterknown Charles Kingsley. He was an early exponent of Muscular Christianity in his 1859 work The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn.

Kingsley was born at Barnack rectory, Northamptonshire, son of the Rev. Charles Kingsley the elder and Mary, ne Lucas. Charles Kingsley came of a long line of clergymen and soldiers, and in addition to the two wellknown novelists, the family included Dr George Kingsley the traveller and writer, and a daughter who also wrote fiction and niece, Mary Kingsley.

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