History Professor, Kingsley as
Chadwick, Owen.  "Charles Kingsley at Cambridge," The Historical Journal Vol. XVIII, No. 2 (1975): 303-325.
Chadwick examines Kingsley’s time at Cambridge both as an undergraduate and as the Regius Chair of Modern History.  In addition to considering the circumstances of his election as Professor and the reactions of University personnel and the wider community, Chadwick discusses such topics as his pedagogical abilities, the responses of the students, the content of his lectures, and his philosophy of history.  Chadwick also intersperses accounts of many of Kingsley’s views on, for example, Catholicism, Newman, science, evolution, sanitation, sexuality, muscular Christianity, together with brief treatments of some of his novels.  He concludes: “But unsophisticated, no; natural, only when he intended naturalness; innocent, not merely no but quite the opposite – who would have thought the good man to have so much blood in his fancy?  If you go along with Kingsley until you begin to know him, you wonder whether this unsubtle man was not one of the most complicated souls you ever met” (325).

Overview; Cambridge University; History Professor; History; Social and Political Views.
 

Chadwick, Owen. “Kingsley’s Chair,” Theology Vol. LXXVIII, No. 655 (Jan., 1975): 2-8.
In this brief article Chadwick considers the background to Kingsley being offered the Regius Chair of Modern History at Cambridge.  He also posits that later critics have tended to be unfair in their critical accounts of him as a scholar of history. Though Kingsley was no Creighton nor Acton, he was better than Goldwin Smith, his contemporary at Oxford.  Moreover, Kingsley was well appreciated by Cambridge's undergraduates.

History; Cambridge University; History Professor.
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