# George Kingsley

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{{Short description|English physician and traveller}}
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| birth_name  = George Henry Kingsley
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| birth_place = [Barnack](/source/Barnack), Northamptonshire, England
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| relatives   = [Charlotte Chanter](/source/Charlotte_Chanter) (sister) <br> [Charles Kingsley](/source/Charles_Kingsley) (brother) <br> [Henry Kingsley](/source/Henry_Kingsley) (brother)
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'''George Henry Kingsley''' (14 February 1826 – 5 February 1892)<ref name="odnb"/> was a medical doctor, traveller and writer. He was a brother of the clergyman and writer [Charles Kingsley](/source/Charles_Kingsley).

==Early life and career==
Kingsley was the fourth of five children of the Reverend Charles Kingsley and his wife Mary; he was born at [Barnack](/source/Barnack), Northamptonshire on 14 February 1826. [Charles Kingsley](/source/Charles_Kingsley) and the novelist [Henry Kingsley](/source/Henry_Kingsley) were his brothers, and the writer [Charlotte Chanter](/source/Charlotte_Chanter) was his sister. He was educated at [King's College School](/source/King's_College_School), London, at the [University of Edinburgh](/source/University_of_Edinburgh), where he graduated M.D. in 1846, and in Paris, where he was slightly wounded during the [barricades of 1848](/source/French_Revolution_of_1848). Later in 1848 his activity in combating the [outbreak of cholera](/source/1829%E2%80%9351_cholera_pandemic) in England was commemorated by his brother Charles in the portrait of Tom Thurnall in ''Two Years Ago''.<ref name="odnb">{{cite ODNB|id=15618|title=Kingsley, George Henry}}</ref><ref name="dnb00">{{cite DNB|first=Thomas|last=Seccombe|authorlink=Thomas Seccombe|wstitle=Kingsley, George Henry|volume=31|page=181}}</ref>

Kingsley completed his medical education in [Heidelberg](/source/Heidelberg), and returned to England about 1850. He became the private physician to a succession of aristocratic patients; he adopted foreign travel as his method of treatment, and either in the capacity of medical adviser, or merely as travelling companion, he explored many countries of the world.<ref name="dnb00"/>

While acting as medical adviser to the [Earl of Ellesmere](/source/Earl_of_Ellesmere)'s family, he had the partial care of the library at [Bridgewater House, Westminster](/source/Bridgewater_House%2C_Westminster); he compiled a catalogue of Elizabethan dramas held there, and in 1865 he edited, from a manuscript preserved in the library, [Francis Thynne](/source/Francis_Thynne)'s ''Animadversions uppon the Annotacions and Corrections of some Imperfections of Impressiones of Chaucer's Workes … reprinted in 1598''.<ref name="odnb"/><ref name="dnb00"/>
[[File:Family grave of George Kingsley in Highgate Cemetery.jpg|thumb|150px|Family grave of George Kingsley in [Highgate Cemetery](/source/Highgate_Cemetery) (east side)]]

==Travels==
In 1866 Kingsley accompanied [Baroness Herbert of Lea](/source/Elizabeth_Herbert%2C_Baroness_Herbert_of_Lea) and her children on a tour of Spain.<ref name="odnb"/> Between 1867 and 1870 he travelled in [Polynesia](/source/Polynesia) with Baroness Herbert's son, the [Earl of Pembroke](/source/George_Herbert%2C_13th_Earl_of_Pembroke), and he recorded his experiences in ''South Sea Bubbles'' "by the Earl and the Doctor" (1872). This book of travel and adventure won great and instant success, reaching a fifth edition by 1873.<ref name="dnb00"/>

In the 1870s he travelled with [Lord Dunraven](/source/Windham_Wyndham-Quin%2C_4th_Earl_of_Dunraven_and_Mount-Earl) on a tour of the US and Canada. Kingsley did much work as a naturalist, and made many contributions to ''[The Field](/source/The_Field_(magazine))'' as "the Doctor". His later travels included Newfoundland, Japan, New Zealand and Australia.<ref name="odnb"/><ref name="dnb00"/>

==Family and later years==
Kingsley married in 1860 Mary Bailey (died 25 April 1892), and they had a son, Charles George R. Kingsley, and a daughter, the writer and explorer [Mary Kingsley](/source/Mary_Kingsley). In 1879 he moved from [Highgate](/source/Highgate) in London to [Bexleyheath, Kent](/source/Bexleyheath), later moving to [Cambridge](/source/Cambridge). His genial manners and store of picturesque information rendered him popular in society.<ref name="odnb"/><ref name="dnb00"/>

He died on 5 February 1892, at his home in Cambridge, and was buried on 15 February on the east side of [Highgate Cemetery](/source/Highgate_Cemetery).<ref name="odnb"/> His wife Mary, only son Charles and brother-in-law William John Bailey are buried with him.<ref>[:File:Family grave of George Kingsley in Highgate Cemetery.jpg](/source/%3AFile%3AFamily_grave_of_George_Kingsley_in_Highgate_Cemetery.jpg)</ref>

==Publications==
Other publications are:
* ''Four Phases of Love. Translated from the German of Heyse'' (1857)<ref name="dnb00"/>
* ''A Gossip on a Sutherland Hillside'' (1861): a descriptive sketch of a stalking expedition in Sutherland, included by [Francis Galton](/source/Francis_Galton) in his ''Vacation Tourists and Notes of Travel''<ref name="dnb00"/>
* ''The New Templi Carmina'' (1863): A Collection of Church Music. Works of the Best European Composers, Published by S. T. Gordon, 538 Broadway, New York. Book located and verified in the library of Dr. Frank Hudson

==References==
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'''Attribution'''

* {{DNB|first=Thomas|last=Seccombe|authorlink=Thomas Seccombe|wstitle=Kingsley, George Henry|volume=31|page=181}}

==External links==
* {{Librivox author |id=17386}}

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