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By the death of Sir Charles Lyell they have lost at once a master 

 and a friend. 



Sir Charles Lyell was elected a Fellow on the 16th of March, 

 1819. 



Charles Kingsley, eldest son of the Eev. Charles Kingsley 

 Sector of Chelsea, was born at Holne Vicarage, on the borders 

 of Dartmoor, June 12, 1819. The Kingsleys are an ancient Che- 

 shire family, and there is a certain Kingsley of Kingsley to whom 

 the author of ' Westward Ho I ' has alluded as his ancestor in the 

 time of the Civil Wars, who joined the Parliamentary Army under 

 Cromwell, and afterwards that of Charles II. under Monk. 

 Charles Kingsley's health as a child and boy was not robust, and 

 on this account the intention of sending him to Rugby was re- 

 linquished. He was, after having been prepared by the Eev. 

 Derwent Coleridge, educated at King's College School, iu the 

 Strand, whence he passed to Magdalen College, Cambridge, in 

 1839, Of this Society he was elected a Scholar, and subsequently 

 gained College prizes for Latin and English Essays. As school- 

 boy and undergraduate, he laid in that store of local knowledge 

 and sympathies which he reproduced with such rich and varied 

 eflect in the best of his fiction. He was told, upon the authority 

 of his medical adviser, that he should live as much in the open air 

 as possible, and he faithfully followed and intensely enjoyed the 

 prescribed regimen. In his later essays he has informed us that 

 these rambles of his youth-over the expanse of Dartmoor and 

 Exmoor, or along the northern and rocky coast of his native 

 couiity, from the mouth of the Lyne to Ilfracombe, from lltia- 

 combe to Clovelly, and thence till the soil of the Cornish land 

 was reached — were the most effective elements in his early edu- 

 cation. He was an indefatiguable walker, and these pedestrian 

 excursions were generally taken alone. So he read English his- 

 tory with the opportunity of illustrating some of its most glow- 

 ing episodes by the presence of the very scenery amid which 

 they took place. Many parts of the county of Devon are in- 

 debted for something of popularity and prestige to the works 

 of Kingsley. He may be even said to have done for it what Sir 

 Walter Scott did for Scotland ; and the labour was iu the same 

 degree one of patriotism and enthusiastic love. 



On the whole, the life of the late Canon was comparatively un- 

 eventful. It was the career of an industrious clergyman and a 



