Date of Birth unknown-Father William Kingston who was Lord of Painswick Manor Gloucestershire, and once Constable of the Tower of London. He was gaoler ,and arranged the execution of Ann Boleyn.
Sir Anthony must of lived at Painswick in adult life for it is mentioned that he was much hated locally for his cruelty.
1540-2nd January Prinknash Abbey surrendered under the dissolution of the monasteries.
The Kingstons did well out of the monastic lands at the dissolution of the monasteries. After the surrender, the manor of Prinknash (Cranham Gloucestershire) was rented by Sir Anthony from the Crown on the condition that he preserve forty deer annually for the King's use.
1537-Knighted by Henry VIII.
1549-After the Pray Book rebellion was quoshed by the Kings forces, He sent down his Provost Marshall, to punish the leaders of the uprising.
A number of priests were hanged, including Richard Bennet, vicar of St Veep. Even Richard Carew, no sympathiser with the rakehells, had to admit that Anthony Kingston "left his name more memorable than commendable amongst the townsmen (of Bodmin), for causing their mayor ( Mayor Boyer) to erect a gallows before his own door, upon which (after feasting Sir Anthony) himself was hanged. In like sort (say they) he trussed up a miller's man thereby, forthat he presented himself in the others stead, saying he could never do his master better service". Nor had the townsman of the far west any better reason to remember Sir Anthony with affection when John Payne, portreeve of St Ives, was strung up by his orders, an event commemorated on a plaque on the wall of the Catholic church four centuries later .
There is a story of Mayor Mayow of Gluvian in the parish of St. Columb.
(Mayow was hung outside a tavern in St Columb). William Mayow 's crime was not capital and "therefore his wife was advised by her friends to hasten to the town after the Marshal and his men, who had custody, and beg for his life. Which she accordingly prepared to do and to render herself a more amiable partitioner before the Marshal's eyes, this dame spent much time in attiring herself and putting on her French hood, then in fashion, that her husband was put to death before her arrival. Intending to plead for her husbands life, spent so long a time in making herself look smart, that before she reached the presence of the stern judge, Master Mayow was hanged.
1556 -In Mary's reign Anthony was involved in a plot to put Elizabeth on the throne. Arrested in Cirencester died on the 14th April on his way to London for trial, probably by his own hand.