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KING'S COUNSEL or QUEEN'S COUNSEL are those barristers in England and Ireland who, having been successful in their profession have received the letters-patent conferring that t.i.tle and right of precedence in all courts; the appointment is honorary and for life, but in acting against the Crown a Q.C. must obtain leave by special license, which is always granted.
KING'S COUNTY (66), an inland Irish county on the left bank of the Shannon, between Tipperary and West Meath; is mostly flat, a quarter of it bogland and a quarter under crops; the chief towns are Tullamore (5), the county town, on the Grand Ca.n.a.l, and Birr or Parsonstown (4), where Lord Rosse's great telescope is.
KINGSLEY, CHARLES, canon of Westminster and chaplain to the Queen, born at Holne Vicarage, near Dartmoor; studied at Cambridge; became rector of Eversley, in Hamps.h.i.+re, in 1844; was the author in 1848 of a drama, ent.i.tled ”The Saint's Tragedy,” with St. Elizabeth of Hungary for heroine, which was followed successively by ”Alton Locke” (1849), and ”Yeast” (1851), chiefly in a Socialistic interest; ”Hypatia,” a brilliant book in the interest of early Christianity in Alexandria and ”Westward Ho!” a narrative of the rivalry of England with Spain in the days of Elizabeth, and besides other works, including ”Two Years Ago,” ”Water Babies,” and ”Hereward the Wake,” he was the author of the popular ballads of ”The Three Fishers,” ”The Starlings,” and ”The Sands of Dee”; his writings had a great influence on his contemporaries, particularly on young men; Professor Saintsbury writes an appreciative estimate of Kingsley (1819-1875).
KINGSLEY, HENRY, younger brother of the preceding; after a brief experience of life in Australia he returned home to start on the career of letters in rivalry with his brother, and distinguished himself by exhibitions of similar literary ability, as a novelist especially, as well as kindred sympathies; his princ.i.p.al novels were ”Geoffrey Hamlyn,”
one of the best novels on Australian life; ”Ravenshoe,” his masterpiece, and ”The Hillyars and the Burtons” (1830-1876).
KINGSTON, 1, capital (13) of Frontenac County, Ontario, on the NE.
sh.o.r.e of the Lake, 150 m. E. of Toronto, an important commercial town with s.h.i.+pbuilding and engineering works; is the seat of Queen's University, military and medical colleges, and an observatory. 2, Capital (47) of Jamaica, on a great bay on the S. coast, on the edge of a sugar-growing district; exports sugar, tobacco, and dye-woods, and imports cotton, flour, and rice. 3, a town (21) on the Hudson, N.Y., has great blue stone-flag quarries, and cement-works, breweries, and tanneries.
KINGSTON-UPON-THAMES (27), in Surrey, 10 m. SW. of London, has a fine church and other buildings, and malting industry.
KINGSTON, W. H. G., popular boys' story-writer, born in London, spent his youth in Oporto, was interested in philosophic schemes, and helped to arrange the Anglo-Portuguese commercial treaty; he wrote 120 tales, of which the ”Three Mids.h.i.+pmen” series is the best, and died at Willesden (1814-1880).
KINGSTOWN, seaport of Dublin, 7 m. SE.; was till 1817 but a fis.h.i.+ng village; has a harbour designed by Rennie, which cost 525,000; was originally Dunleary, and changed into Kingstown on George IV.'s visit in 1821.
KINKEL, JOHANN GOTTFRIED, German poet and writer on aesthetics, born near Bonn; studied for the Church, but became lecturer on Art in Bonn, 1846; two years later he was imprisoned for revolutionary proceedings; escaped in 1850 to England, and became professor at Zurich in 1866; wrote ”Otto der Schutz,” an epic, and ”Nimrod,” a drama (1815-1882).
KINROSS (7), small Scottish county lying between Perth and Fife, round Loch Leven, is agricultural and grazing, with some hills of no great height, and coal mines; the co. town, KINROSS (2), is on the W. sh.o.r.e of Loch Leven; manufactures tartan.
KINSALE (5), a once important seaport in co. Cork, at the mouth of the Bandon, 13 m. S. of Cork; has lost its trade, and is now a summer resort and fis.h.i.+ng station; King James II. landed here in 1689, and re-embarked in 1690.
KINTYRE, a long narrow isthmus on the W. coast of Scotland, between the Atlantic and the Firth of Clyde, is chiefly hill and gra.s.s country; but at Campbeltown are great distilleries; at Machrihanish Bay, on the W.
coast, are fine golfing links.
KIPCHAKS, a nomadic Turkish race who settled on the south-eastern steppes of Russia about the 11th century, and whose descendants still occupy the district.
KIPLING, RUDYARD, story-teller and poet, born in Bombay, and educated in England; went out to India as a journalist; his stories respect Anglo-Indian, and especially military, life in India, and his ”Soldiers Three,” with the rest that followed, such as ”Wee Willie Winkie,” gained for him an immediate and wide reputation; as a poet, his most successful effort is his ”Barrack-Room Ballads,” instinct with a martial spirit, in 1864; he is a writer of conspicuous realistic power; he deems it the mission of civilisation to drill the savage races in humanity; _b_. 1865.
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