George Kingsley

Later in 1848 his activity in combating the outbreak of cholera in England was commemorated by his brother Charles in the portrait of Tom Thurnall in Two Years Ago.

[2] While acting as medical adviser to the Earl of Ellesmere's family, he had the partial care of the library at Bridgewater House, Westminster; he compiled a catalogue of Elizabethan dramas held there, and in 1865 he edited, from a manuscript preserved in the library, Francis Thynne's Animadversions uppon the Annotacions and Corrections of some Imperfections of Impressiones of Chaucer's Workes … reprinted in 1598.

[1][2] In 1866 Kingsley accompanied Baroness Herbert of Lea and her children on a tour of Spain.

This book of travel and adventure won great and instant success, reaching a fifth edition by 1873.

[1] His wife Mary, only son Charles and brother-in-law William John Bailey are buried with him.