Kensington Kingsford

Kensington Kingsford

Portrayed by Placeholder; Former Character
Full Name	Kensington Kingsford
Title	Earl of Farleigh
Associated Noble House(s)	Earldom of Farleigh
Date of Birth	12th June 1782
Father	Cyril Kingsford II
Father's Rank	Earl of Farleigh
Mother	Anne Kingsford
Mother's Rank	Countess of Kingsford
Town Residence
Income
School	Eton
University	Cambridge
Year Attained Title	1782

'Kensington Kingsford is a former character, created by Tavia

Family

• Father: Cyril Kingsford II, Lord Farleigh. 1749-1782 - trampled to death by a horse on a hunt.
• Mother: Anne Kingsford, Lady Farleigh 1756- ???
• Sisters: Clara (Kingsford) MacAlistair 1784-???; Mary (Kingsford) Durham, Lady Spencer 1784-???
• Nephew: James MacAlistair II 1810-???

Background

The oldest son of Lord and Lady Farleigh of Somerset, and in fact the only one despite attempts at bearing brothers, he was the sole heir to the Foxleigh Estate. Which he received under unfortunate circumstances on his fourth birthday. It was placed into trust to Anne Kingsford until he reached a more appropriate age, and was managed by several close friends to the Kingsford family to assist. As so Kensington grew up in a large house constantly filled with people with something to do yet not the childhood he should have had. Where his sisters were allowed theirs, he was forced to skip his own childhood and step into his fathers shoes as the man of the house from age sixteen, which also meant acting as both protective older brother and father figure to his sisters as best he could. Which unfortunately meant he was never particularly close to them as he had 'better things to be doing' and his leap into maturity found them frivolous and frustrating.

He attended Eton before moving on to Cambridge University where his rather outspoken and mature approach to life saw him excel intellectually and come out the other side of his educational life as a shining example and a topic of boastful pride to his mother and anyone that will listen. His particular interest lay in Law as any other study seemed fluffy and irrelevant to him at the time. His studies in Law later came in useful when Tax Collectors attempted to accuse the family of having outstanding debts, left behind by the late Cyril Kingsford II. Upon standing to lose everything, money, status and home, Kensington's education came to their aid and he managed to organise their financial troubles as best he could and while they lost a good chunk of their wealth they did not stand to lose anything else. The only problem was that Kensington ended up spending much of his life far too busy caring for his family and doing what any dutiful son would do in the circumstances that his own life has very much been placed on the sidelines. Without a father to look after his mother or sisters, he has very much spent his life making sure their lives are as his father would have wished.

However his sisters have both been married off now, one stands to rise through the social ranks in the Durham family with her husband and their son. His other sister has also been married off to a Scotsman and is three months pregnant and now without sisters in the house his mother has turned her nagging attention to her son and the fact that he has not yet found himself a wife. On the grounds that he cannot possibly stand to live in the house by himself (and for the simple fact that she demands her only son have a son of his own) she made such kind arrangements for him to go to London and find himself a wife. His only reason for agreeing is he knows her well enough to know if he does not go she will bring an insufferable bore to the house herself and he'll be married within the week.

Having never been to London before, and being very much a noble country-man inside, and one whose name is not particularly well known socially, he doubts the City will be to his liking in the slightest, and he very much doubts any sensible city woman will be interested in a man such as himself. Though the title and the money may be there to back him up, he stubbornly refuses to marry some woman on the grounds that; 'she'll do'. But London is a big city right? Surely there'll be one woman with that little spark?