A parish clergyman with a concern for social reform, Kingsley was the Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge, an enthusiastic amateur biologist and a writer of poems and novels as varied as Westward Ho! and The Water Babies.
By Ian Lane
Part of the Torquay Museum Society Lecture Season.
Time 10:45am
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