an ancient municipal borough and market-town of England, county of Surrey, 10 miles W. of London. It extends about a mile and a half along the river, which is crossed by a fine stone bridge of five arches, is somewhat irregularly built, and contains, among other buildings, a handsome town-hall, an ancient cruciform church much altered, and a Queen Elizabeth grammar school. Pop. 6279, chiefly employed in malting. Kingston was a place of some consequence in the days of the Anglo-Saxons; it returned representatives to parliament in Kingstown, a seaport-town of Ireland, county of Dublin, on the S. side of Dublin Bay, 6 miles E.S.E. from Dublin, by railway. Its name was changed from Dunleary to Kingstown in commemoration of the visit of George IV. in 1821. Queen Victoria landed and embarked here in August 1849. Dunleary was a small fishing village previous to 1816, when its harbour-works were commenced, an account of which will be found under Dublin County. It is now a mail-packet station, and a place of extensive trade, the returns of which, however, are included in those for Dublin. It has daily steam communication with Holyhead, Liverpool, Cork, &c. At the entrance to the harbour there is a lighthouse on each pier—that on the E. pier has a light revolving every half minute, and seen 9 miles off. An atmospheric railway, 2 miles in length, connects Kingstown with Dalkey. Pop. (1851) 10,453.