After practising for some years as a surgeon at Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, he moved to Chilton-upon-Polden in Somerset, and in 1802 to Taunton.
[2] At Taunton Kinglake attended public meetings and made speeches in support of the first Reform Bill.
He died on 26 September 1842 at West Monkton rectory, near Taunton, the home of his son W. C. Kinglake.
[3] Kinglake replied to his critics in:[1] He also published "Observations on the Medicinal Effects of Digitalis" in the Medical and Physical Journal for 1800.
[5] In Robert Macnish's Anatomy of Drunkenness, there is a short article by the author on Kinglake's experiment with ether.