KINGSLEY, George Henry (brother of rev. C. Kingsley 1819–75). b. Barnack, Northamptonshire 14 Feb. 1827; ed. at King’s coll. London, Edin. univ. and Paris; M.D. Edin. 1846; practised in England from 1850; adopted foreign travel as his method of treatment of his patients, explored many foreign countries; a sportsman and linguist; author of Four phases of love translated from the German of P. J. L. Heyse 1857; A gossip on a Sutherland hillside 1861, included in Francis Galton’s Vacation tourists and notes of travel; South Sea Bubbles; By the Earl and the Doctor 1872, an account of his travels in Polynesia with the Earl of Pembroke 1867–70, 2 ed. 1873. d. 7 Mortimer road, Cambridge 5 Feb. 1892.
KINGSLEY, Henry (brother of the preceding). b. Barnack 2 Jany. 1830; ed. at King’s coll. London and Worcester coll. Oxf. 1850–3; went to the Australian goldfields 1853, returned to England 1858; edited the Edinburgh Daily Review 1870–1, correspondent for his paper during Franco-German war 1870, present at battle of Sedan 1 Sep. 1870, the first Englishman to enter Sedan afterwards; author of The recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn 3 vols. 1859, 3 ed. 1864; Ravenshoe 3 vols. 1862, 2 ed. 1862; Austin Elliott 2 vols. 1863, 2 ed. 1863; The Hillyars and the Burtons 3 vols. 1865, 2 ed. 1865; Mademoiselle Mathilde 3 vols. 1868, 2 ed. 1868; Stretton 3 vols. 1869, and 15 other books. d. of cancer in the tongue at Attrees, Cuckfield, Sussex 24 May 1876. Graphic, xiii 563, 564 (1876), portrait.
KINGSMILL, Sir John. b. 1798; captain of the Battle Axe guards, Dublin Castle 1828–1834 when corps was dissolved; knighted by lord lieut. of Ireland 1830. d. 23 Oct. 1859.
KINGSMITH, Joseph. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1831, M.A. 1836; chaplain Pentonville prison, London 1843–59; author of Chapters on prisons and prisoners and the prevention of crime 1849, 3 ed. 1854; A common sense view of the treatment of prisoners 1850; Missions and missionaries 1853, 2 ed. 1854; On the present aspect of serious crime in England 1856; British rule and British christianity in India 1859; Our police, friendly council to the police 1860. d. 142 Marina, St. Leonards 25 Dec. 1865.
KINGSTON, Robert Henry King, 4 Earl of (2 son of 3 earl of Kingston 1771–1839). b. 4 Oct. 1796; ed. Ex. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1818; ensign 5 foot 31 Oct. 1816, placed on h.p. 24 Dec. 1818; lieut. 69 foot 3 Jany. 1822, placed on h.p. 12 June 1826; M.P. Cork 1831–32; known as viscount Kingsborough 1837–39; succeeded 18 Oct. 1839; frequently sued by cabmen in the police courts and behaved in an unseemly manner in the house of lords; declared of unsound mind April 1861. d. 21 Jany. 1867. G.M. March 1867 pp. 380–81.
KINGSTON, James King, 5 Earl of. b. 8 April 1880; barrister King’s inns, Dublin 1825, Lincoln’s inn 25 May 1827; succeeded 21 Jany. 1867. d. Mitchelstown castle 8 Sep. 1869.
KINGSTON, Robert King, 6 Earl of. b. Henrietta st. Dublin 17 July 1804; M.P. for Roscommon 1826–1830; succeeded his father 20 Nov. 1854 as viscount Lorton, and his cousin 8 Sep. 1869 as earl of Kingston. d. London 16 Oct. 1869.
KINGSTON, Robert Edward King, 7 Earl of. b. Dublin 18 Oct. 1831; succeeded 16 Oct. 1869. d. Alexandra hotel, Hyde park corner, London 21 June 1871.
Note.—The four Earls of Kingston died in less than 4½ years.
KINGSTON, Alfred. b. 1829; junior clerk in public record office, London 23 May 1844, an assistant keeper of records 27 July 1875 to death; hon. sec. to Camden society Dec. 1872 to death. d. 12 Chancery lane, London 24 April 1885.