Sir Patrick Graham Toler Kingsley KCVO (12 May 1908 – 24 August 1999) served the Duchy of Cornwall for more than 40 years.
Kingsley was born in Calcutta, Bengal, and educated at Winchester College where he played cricket for the school and was the only Wykehamist to have played five times in the annual match against Eton.
[1] He then went up to New College, Oxford, where he played cricket for Oxford University Cricket Club for three seasons from 1928 to 1930 (captain in 1930), and then intermittently for amateur sides such as the Free Foresters.
[1] He had been an army cadet at Winchester and subsequently joined the Territorial Army;[3] during World War II he served in the Queen’s Royal Regiment in Belgium and Germany.
Kingsley was appointed CVO in the New Year Honours of 1950[4] and knighted KCVO in 1962.