Quotes:King, Edward, Viscount Kingsborough

Zirkoff, Boris

King, Edward, Viscount Kingsborough. Born Nov. 16, 1795, as eldest son of George, 3rd Earl of Kingston, and Lady Helena Moore, died of typhus at Dublin, Feb. 27, 1837. Matriculated at Oxford from Exeter Coll., 1814, and was M.P. for Cork Co., 1818-20. The sight of a Mexican MS in Bodleian Library determined him to devote his life to the study of Mexican antiquities. Promoted and edited, with copious notes, a magnificent work, Antiquities of Mexico (9 vols., imperial fol., London, 1830-48, and a projected 10th vol.), in collaboration with Agostino Aglio (q.v.), and comprising facsimiles of ancient Mexican paintings and hieroglyphics preserved in various Libraries. The main drift of his argument, however, was the colonization of Mexico by Israelites. This work cost him £32,000. Oppressed with depts, he was arrested in connection with a suit by a paper manufacturer, and lodged in the sheriff’s prison where he died.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 2, p. 533