Alexander William Kinglake

Alexander William Kinglake (* August 5, 1809 in Taunton, Somerset, † January 2, 1891 ) was an English statesman and historian.

Kinglake was educated at Eton College and studied at the University of Cambridge. He was guardian to London 1837, but stopped in 1856 to practice on. 1857-68 he was a representative of the Liberals in Parliament for Bridgwater, where he distinguished himself by his interpellations and motions on Foreign Affairs.

His first work Eothen or Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East (1844, new ed 1864), an episodic account of his travels in the Orient, caused a sensation and is now one of the classics of the English East - travel literature. His complex, but valuable masterpiece is the story of the Crimean War: The invasion of the Crimea (London 1863-75, 5 vols, 6th ed 1883, 7 vols ).