Kingsley, HENRY, brother of the foregoing (born 1830, died 1876), was educated at King's College, London, and Worcester College, Oxford. From 1853 to 1858 he resided in Australia, and on his return commenced his career as a writer of fiction with a vigorous picture of colonial life in Geoffrey Hamlyn (1859). To this succeeded Ravenshoe (1861), his masterpiece; Austin Elliot (1863); The Hillyars and the Burtons, another novel of Australian life and manners (1865), &c. His ideal of life is a noble and a healthy one; his works, which show little skill in the construction of the plots, contain much that is pathetic, without any tinge of sentimentalism. His style is rather vigorous than highly cultivated. For two years
(1870-71) Kingsley edited the Edinburgh Daily Review.