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About Zephaniah Kingsley Sr.
- Zephaniah Kingsley Sr.
- (April 11, 1734 – circa 1792) was an affluent British merchant, a loyalist during the American Revolution and one of the seven founders of the University of New Brunswick, Canada's oldest English language university.
- He was the father of slave trader and plantation owner Zephaniah Kingsley Jr.
- and the grandfather of Anna McNeill Whistler — better known as "Whistler's Mother" in the painting Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1 by her son (and Kingsley's great-grandson) James McNeill Whistler.
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