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4 unusual facts about Charles Kingston


Archibald Peake

After his election, Peake was at first an independent supporting the Liberal Governments of Charles Kingston and Frederick Holder.

Charles Kingston

In 1897 he travelled to London for the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria, where he was made a Privy Councillor and awarded an honorary Doctor of Civil Laws degree by Oxford University.

Sir Thomas Buxton, 3rd Baronet

When Buxton was appointed governor, the Premier of South Australia, Charles Kingston was angry that the South Australian government had not been involved in the decision about who should be the new Governor, so made life as hard as possible for Buxton and his family.

Vere St. Leger Goold

Charles Kingston "Remarkable Rogues: The Careers of Some Notable Criminals of Europe and America" (London: John Lane, The Bodley Head; New York, John Lane Company, 1921), p.



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