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A number of distinguished staff, students and administrators were
associated with King's during its early years. Statesmen such as
the Duke of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel
and William Gladstone, and numerous bishops
and other churchmen, were actively involved in its foundation and
early administration. Professorial staff included the geologist,
Sir Charles Lyell; John
Park, an influential expert on constitutional law; the scientists
and inventors, John Daniell and Sir
Charles Wheatstone; the theologian, Frederick
Maurice; the educational reformer and musicologist, John
Hullah; the water-colourist, John Sell Cotman, and William
Dyce, a pioneer of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Prominent students
included the famous Pre-Raphaelite artist, Dante Gabriel Rossetti,
Charles Kingsley, the Christian Socialist
reformer and author, the 'father of eugenics' and pioneer of heredity,
Francis Galton, and John Ruskin, the art
critic and poet.
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