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* KING'S COLLEGE. 510 KINGSLEY. College, like University College, became a teach- ing body, while the University of London be- came an e.vuuuuing body. In 1809 women were received, and in 1S!?0 were admitted to degrees. The collejjf is iu connection with the Church of England, and its courses embrace theologj', literature, science, pure and applied, and medi- cine. There is a seliool connected with the col- lege, and a few ttudents reside within its walls. It is now located in the east wing of Somerset Uouse. In the muscma arc the Babliage calculat- ing uiacliine and the George III. collection of mechanical models and pliilosophical instruments. Perhaps its best-known alumnus is Dean Farrar. Other students were Prof. Thorold Rogers, Sir James Filzjames Stcplicn. I'rofessor Cayley. and the brothers JJossetti. wliose father. Gabricle Ros- setti, was professor of Italian there. KING'S (or QTJEEN'S) COITNSEL. In England and Ireland, a iiairisier at law. wlio has been appointed by letters jiatent to lie his or her ^lajesty's coims<-l. Though the ofliee does not exist in .Scotland, it has l)ecn adopted in Canada and other Britisli colonics. Xo corresponding dignity exists in the legal profession in the Unit- ed States. See B.veristeb; Lawteb. KING'S COUNTY. An inland county of Ire- land, bounded east by Kildare. and west by llie Shannon, wliieh .searatcs it from Kosconnnon and Galway (Jlai): Ireland. D 3i. Area, 772 square miles. .Stock-raising is the chief industry. The capital is Tullamore. The population has steadily decreased: in 1841. 147,350: in 1901, 00.100." KING'S DATJGHTEKS AND SONS, Ix- TEHN'ATIONAL Okder OF. An organization formed in Xew York City, early in 18S0, as a distinctly spiritual force. At first women only were ad- mitted to membership, but the society was soon enlarged to take in men and boys. It is strictly undenominational, organized with local bodies called 'circles,' which are combined into 'chapters of circles.' and has a centr;il council which is in- corporated, with headquarters in Xew York City. The social and religious services are of the most varied description, each circle being given free •choice in choosing its own special work. The idea is to work 'first for the heart, next the home, then the Church, and after that the great out- side.' The badge of the society is a ^lalte^e cross of silver, l)earing the initials I. H. X. ('In His X"ame'). A weekly paper. The fiilrrr Cross, is published in Xew Y'ork. The present mem- bership is nearly 500,000 in all parts of the world. KING'S (or QUEEN'S) EVIDENCE. In Englan J. a person who. having been an aeeompliee in some crime, has confessed, and offered to give evidence and make full confession. The usual practice of the Crown in such cases is to pardon the person so acting, though he is not absolutely entitled to a pardon : and an application is gen- erally made to the judge to admit the party as a witness on the trial of his fellow-criminals. A similar practice exists in Scotland, the public prosecutor having the power and discretion to admit the confessing party. For the corre- sponding nractice in the I'nited States, see Sr.TK's EvinEXCE. KING'S EVIL. See ScBOFri-A. KINGSFORD, kingz'ferd, WltLlAM (1819- 98). A Canadian historian, born in the Parish of Saint Lawrence Jewry, London. England. He was educated at Cambcrwell and studied areliitcc- ture, but his tastes were otherwise, and he en- listed as a private in the dragoon guards wlien sixteen years old. In 1837 he went with his leginient to Canada and rose to be sergeant, but left the army (1841) to go into the City Sur- veyor's ollice in Montreal. He was employed in the survey for the Lachine Canal (1840-48) and the following year came to the United States to aid in the building of the Hudson Kiver Railroad. Thence he >vent to Panama and was an engineer on the railway building there. Afterwards he was surveyor for the Grand Trunk Railroad, and then a district superintendent of the line. He was again in the Canadian service in connection with the Ridcau Canal, and was Dominion engi- neer in charge of the harbors of the Great Lakes and the Saint Lawrence from 1872 to 1879. Ho piiblished llistortj, Sitrnrture. and tilaiisfics of Plank Roads in the United Stntes and Canada (1852), Impressions of the ^'est and fiotith 11858). The Canadian Canals (1805), A Cana- dian Political Coin (1874). Canadian Archce- olor/ij (1886), The Early liihlioriraphy of Ontario (1892) ; but by far his most important work is his History of' Canada (10 vols., 1887-97), the result of seventeen years' faithful study of the Canadian archives. KINGSLEY, kmgzTl, Ciiakles (1819-75). An English author and clerg>inan, born at Holne vicarage, Devonshire. .Tune 12. 1819. He entered Magdalen College. Cambridge, in 1838, where he distinguished himself in classics and mathematics. In 1842 he became curate, and, two years later, rector of Everslcy, in Hani|)shire. In 1848 he published the Saint's Tragedy, or the True Story of Klizaheth of Hnn<iary,ai admirable representa- tion of mediipval piety. The next two or three years of his life were devoted — in company with his friend F. D. ^Maurice, and others — to the physical and moral improvement of the working classes. His opinions on the social anarchy of modern times are to be found in his Alton Locke, Tailor and I'oct ( 1850). a novel (jf some j)ower, the hero of which is taken from a London workshop. This was followed by Yeast, a Problem (1851), in which Kingsley handles, among other questions, the condition of the English agricultural laborer; and in 1853 by Hypatia. or .A'eic Foes uith an Old Face, a brilliant delineation of Christianity in conflict with the expiring philosophy of Greece in the early part of the fifth century. Two years after he jmlilished Westuard Ho! — probably the greatest of his works. Other works of his are the famous London sermon called ilessuye of the Church to Laboring if en; The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales: Tiro Years Ago (1857) : The Water liabies (18C3) : Good yea's of God; Here- ward (1886) ; The Hermits (1808) : Madam How and Lady Why: .it Last, a delightful account of a voyage to the West Indies (1871). He was ap- pointed professor of modern history at Cambridge in 1860. and. after resigning that post, was made, in 1869. canon of Chester and afterward canon of Westminster. In 1867 he had a passionate con- troversy with .John Henry X'ewnian because Kingsley had said (1860) that "truth for its o^yn sake had never l>een a virtue with the Roman Catholic clergy." Kingsley's versatility is strik-