99 foot 28 Feb. 1805, major 3 May 1810; commanded the troops in
Newfoundland from 1 Oct. 1816 to the peace; returned to England,
his regiment was disbanded 1818; lieut. col. 12 Aug. 1819, sold
out; K.H. 1837. _d._ 1880.
KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (eld. son of rev. Wm. Clark King, V.
of Norham, Northumberland). Matric. from Univ. coll. Oxf. 20
Nov. 1849 aged 17; scholar of Trin. coll. Oxf. 1851–5; B.A.
1853, M.A. 1856; C. of Woodhorn, Northumberland 1855–9; R. of
St. Mary-le-Bow, Durham 1859–67; principal of Female training
coll. Durham 1859–64; inspector of schools for Durham and
Northumberland 10 June 1864 to death. _d._ 8 Aug. 1872.
KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (son of a shipping agent in the iron
trade). _b._ Newport, Monmouthshire 5 Sep. 1818; a sizar at
Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1836, scholar 1839, fellow 1842 to death;
B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843; collected antique gems in Italy 1845–77,
sold his collection consisting of 331 engraved stones about
1878, it has been in the Metropolitan museum of art at New York
since 1881; ordained deacon 1845; author of Antique Gems, their
origin, use and value 1860; The Gnostics and their remains 1864,
2 ed. 1887; The natural history, ancient and modern, of precious
stones and gems 1865; The handbook of engraved gems 1866, 2 ed.
1885; Antique gems and rings 2 vols. 1872. _d._ London 25 March
1888. _bur._ Highgate cemetery. _Athenæum 31 March 1888 p._ 412,
_7 April 1888 p._ 441; _Proceedings Numismatic Soc._ 1888 _p._
28.
KING, DAVID. _b._ Ayr 1787; ed. at Ayr and univ. of Edin.;
M.R.C.S. England 1810; practised at Eltham 1811 to death;
president of West Kent Medico chirurgical society; author of
The history of Eltham palace and its subterranean passage;
General observations regarding pestilential diseases 1854;
General observations on church patronage, with a history of
the patronage of Eltham church 1855. _d._ Eltham 23 Aug. 1865.
_Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. v_ 148, 163 (1867).
KING, DAVID (son of John King 1762–1827, pastor of second united
associate church in Montrose). _b._ Montrose 20 May 1806; ed.
at univs. of Aberdeen and Edinb.; minister of first united
secession church, Dalkeith 13 Jany. 1830, and of Greyfriars
secession church, Glasgow 15 Oct. 1833 to 12 Feb. 1855; LL.D.
Glasgow 1840; an active founder of Evangelical Alliance 1845;
founded a Presbyterian congregation at Bayswater, London 1860,
minister to 1869; moderator of synod of Presbyterian church of
Scotland 1863–7; minister at Morningside near Edinb. 1869–73;
author of The ruling eldership of the christian church 1846,
3 ed. 1861; The state and prospects of Jamaica 1850; The
principles of geology explained in their relation to religion
1850, 2 ed. 1850; An exposition of the presbyterian form of
government 1853. _d._ Hamilton terrace, London 20 Dec. 1883.
_Memoir of David King, by his wife and daughter_ (1885) 1–263,
_portrait_; _John Smith’s Our Scottish Clergy_ (1848) 30–6.
KING, EDWARD BOLTON. _b._ 1801; sheriff of Warwickshire 1830;
M.P. Warwick 1831–37; M.P. South Warwickshire 1857–59. _d._
Chadshunt near Leamington 23 March 1878.
KING, SIR EDWARD DURNFORD (son of Wm. King of Southampton). _b._
1775; midshipman June 1789, captain 8 Jany. 1801, R.A. 22 July
1830; commander in chief on the Cape of Good Hope and Brazil
station, Aug. 1840 to Dec. 1841; commander in chief at the Nore
18 April 1845 to 9 May 1848; admiral 30 Oct. 1849; K.C.H. 1
Jany. 1833; knighted at the pavilion, Brighton 22 Jany. 1833.
_d._ at his residence in Devonshire 14 Jany. 1862.
KING, FRANCIS. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1838; B.A.
1841, M.A. B.D. and D.D. 1879; C. of Abbeyleix, Queen’s co.
1843–9; C. of Oswestry, Salop 1849–53; P.C. of St. Patrick’s
chapel of ease, Newry, co. Down 1853 to death; archdeacon of
Dromore 1887 to death; wrote to Mr. Gladstone at time of passing
of act disestablishing Church of Ireland, warning him against
that measure and predicting his political downfall; the oldest
clergyman in the Irish church. _d._ Downshire road, Newry 7 Nov.
1891.
KING, GEORGE. _b._ 1813; ensign 13 foot 13 April 1831, lieut.
col. 17 Nov. 1857 to 19 Jany. 1864 when he retired on full pay
with rank of M.G. _d._ Bradford, Abbas, Dorset 11 March 1868.
KING, SIR GEORGE ST. VINCENT DUCKWORTH, 4 Baronet (2 son of
sir Richard King, 2 baronet, vice admiral 1774–1834). _b._
Stonehouse, Devon 15 July 1809; entered navy 8 Feb. 1822,
captain 28 Aug. 1841; second in command of naval brigade at
siege of Sebastopol; R.A. 4 April 1862; commander-in-chief in
China 1863 to 1867; admiral 20 April 1875; C.B. 1855, K.C.B. 24
May 1873; granted good service pension of £300, 19 Aug. 1876;
succeeded his brother sir Richard Duckworth King 2 Nov. 1887;
assumed by r.l. additional name of Duckworth. _d._ Wear house,
Exeter 18 Aug. 1891.
KING, GEORGE WILLIAM. _b._ London 15 June 1822; ed. Eton and
Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1844, M.A. 1847; a cricketer, played for
Surrey 1846–9; started the Brighton cricket club 1848, hon. sec.
1848–54, pres. 1855. _d._ Brighton 22 Dec. 1881. _Lillywhite’s
Cricket scores_, _iii_ 404 (1863).
KING, SIR HENRY. _b._ 1777 or 1778; cornet 24 light dragoons 25
March 1794; lost his right leg in attack on Rahmanie, Egypt 9
May 1801; major Sicilian regiment 5 Feb. 1807; major 82 foot 30
April 1807, lieut. col. 4 June 1813 to 25 Feb. 1816 when placed
on h.p.; general 20 June 1854; col. 3 foot 18 March 1845 to
death; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831; governor of Heligoland 1817–1840;
knighted at St. James’s palace 5 June 1834; K.C.H. 1834. _d._ 7
Sussex terrace, Hyde park, London 24 July 1854.
KING, HENRY (son of Charles King, huntsman to the Pytchley
hounds to 1818, _d._ 1857). _b._ Brington near Althorp park
1815; in the Warwickshire kennels under Jack Wood 1828–30;
second whip to Thomas Tyrwhitt Drake 1830 and to Mr. Applewhaite
1831–36; third whip to the Royal Buckhounds, July 1836, second
whip 1850, first whip 1855–65; her majesty’s huntsman 2 April
1866 to death, the kennel consisted of 40 couple of hounds.
_d._ the Royal kennels, Ascot 30 Dec. 1871. _bur._ Sunninghill
churchyard 6 Jany. 1872. _Baily’s Mag. xvii_ (1870) _portrait_,
_xviii_ 5–14 (1870), _xxi_ 246 (1872); _Windsor and Eton Express
6 Jany. 1872 p._ 4, _13 Jany. p._ 4.
KING, HENRY SAMUEL (son of Henry King of Brighton). _b._ Lewes
15 Nov. 1817; bookseller at Brighton with an elder brother 1837
or 1838, then alone; partner in firm of Smith, Elder & Co.,
Cornhill, London, in 1868 the partners separated, H. S. King
retaining the Indian agency and banking business in his own
name; firm became Henry S. King & Co. bankers and East India,
army, navy and colonial agents 45 Pall Mall, 65 Cornhill and 14
Worship st.; proprietor of the Homeward Mail and the Overland
Mail; published many works 1871–77; relinquished publishing
and bookselling portion of his business 1877. _d._ 45 Pall
Mall, London 17 Nov. 1878. _Bookseller 2 Dec. 1878 p._ 1215;
_Academy_, _ii_ 497 (1878).
KING, JAMES KING (elder son of rev. James Simpkinson 1767–1842,
R. of St. Peter-le-Poor, London, who assumed name of King
1837). _b._ Weybridge, Surrey 6 Nov. 1806; ed. at Balliol coll.
Oxf., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1865; sheriff of Hereford 1845; M.P.
Herefordshire 1852–68. _d._ Staunton park, Herefordshire 17 June
1881.
KING, JOHN. _b._ Moy, co. Antrim 15 Dec. 1838; a private in
70 regt. in India, where he was employed by G. T. Landells
when purchasing the camels for the Burke and Wills Australian
exploring expedition 1860; went on the expedition to
Carpentaria, the only survivor of the party which started from
Cooper’s Creek 16 Dec. 1860, rescued by Alfred Howitt, July
1861; had pension from Victorian government of £180 a year. _d._
of phthisis at Melbourne 15 Jany. 1872.
KING, JOHN. _b._ Stirling 1789; ed. Stirling gram. sch.; manager
of Hurlet and Campsie alum co.’s works at Campsie; manager of
G. Macintosh and co.’s Cudbear dye works at Dunchattan 1825, a
partner 1825, became sole owner 1848, closed the works 1851;
partner in Hurlet and Campsie alum co. 1851 to death. _d._
Levernholme, parish of Eastwood 31 Oct. 1875. _Memoirs of One
hundred Glasgow men_, _ii_ 169–70 (1886), _portrait_.
NOTE.--The staple articles in the dye works were cudbear and archil,
extracted from seaweed imported from Sweden and Peru, used in colouring
woollens and silks crimson and purple, the new modern brilliant dyes
ruined this business.
KING, JOHN CROOKSHANKS. _b._ Kilwinning, Ayrshire 11 Oct. 1806;
went to U.S. America 1829, a superintendent of factories; in
Cincinnati and Louisville several years; made a clay model
of his wife’s head 1834; resided in New Orleans modelling
busts and making cameo likenesses 1837–40; removed to Boston,
Massachusetts; made busts of D. Webster, J. Q. Adams, Louis
Agassiz and R. W. Emerson. _d._ Boston 21 April 1882.
KING, JOHN DUNCAN. _b._ 1789; ensign 71 foot 28 Aug. 1806;
lieut. 7 foot 13 June 1811, placed on h.p. 20 April 1820; lieut.
75 foot 14 May 1829, placed on h.p. 28 Dec. 1830; served in the
Walcheren expedition and in Peninsular war; military knight of
Windsor 1850 to death; landscape painter, exhibited 18 pictures
at R.A., 39 at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1824–58. _d._ Windsor
Castle 21 Aug. 1863.
KING, JOHN HYNDE. Ensign 49 foot 6 Sep. 1844, major 2 Oct.
1855; wounded in the assault on the Redan 16 June 1855; captain
grenadier guards 19 Dec. 1856 and major 29 May 1867 to death;
C.B. 2 June 1869. _d._ Aldershot camp 9 July 1870.
KING, JOHN LANGLEY. Lecturer at Royal Polytechnic Institution,
Regent st. London many years; F.G.S. _d._ 6 Eastfield villas,
Church hill, Walthamstow 26 Jany. 1891.
KING, JOHN MYERS (2 son of Edward King of Askham, Westmoreland).
_b._ 1804; ed. at Balliol coll. Oxf., scholar 1821–7; B.A. 1824,
M.A. 1827; V. of Cutcombe, Somerset 8 Dec. 1832 to death; author
of The Georgics of Virgil translated into English verse 1843,
another ed. 1871; The Aeneid of Virgil translated into English
verse 1847, another ed. 1875; The Eclogues and Georgics of
Virgil translated into English verse 1882. _d._ 1887.
KING, JOHN WILLIAM (son of colonel Nevile King of Ashby hall,
Sleaford, Leics.) _b._ 1792; ed. at C.C. coll. Oxf., scholar
1810–20, fellow 1820–33; B.A. 1814, M.A. 1818, B.D. 1827; V. of
Ashby-de-la-Launde, co. Lincoln 15 Jany. 1822 to death; R. of
Bassingham, co. Lincoln 15 May 1832 to 1874; assumed name of Mr.
Launde on the turf 1861; won the One thousand guineas, Oaks and
St. Leger with Apology ridden by John Osborne 1874. _d._ Ashby
hall 9 May 1875. _I.L.N. lxvi_ 475 (1875), _lxvii_ 119 (1875).
KING, JOSEPH. _b._ 1802; solicitor in London, Jany. 1836 to Nov.
1874; contributed to The Critic; author of Flights of Phædo
1859, a poem in reply to Tennyson’s Maud; and The Guildford
farce, a satirical poem 1860 both anonymous. _d._ 16 North
Buildings, Finsbury circus, London 1 April 1875. _Law Times_,
_lix_ 17 (1875).
KING, JOSHUA (son of David King of Lowick Bridge, Ulverstone,
Lancs.). _b._ 16 Jany. 1798; ed. at Hawkshead gram. sch. and
Trinity coll. Camb. 1815, sizar of Queen’s coll. Feb. 1816;
senior wrangler and B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822, LL.D. 1838; fellow
of Queen’s coll. Jany. 1820, tutor 1820, elected president
by a dispensation from the crown, for his not being in holy
orders 1832, remained till death; vice chancellor 1833; F.R.S.;
Lucasian professor of mathematics in univ. of Camb. 1839,
resigned 1849; personally argued in an appeal to the Crown as
visitor, that the president of Queen’s had no voice in the
election of the fellows, but lord Lyndhurst gave judgment
against him 22 Jany. 1828. _d._ President’s lodge, Queen’s
college 1 Sep. 1857. _The case of the president of Queen’s
college, containing the two petitions of J. King against the
election of H. Godfrey_ (1821); _Cambridge Chronicle 5 Sep. 1857
p._ 4, _12 Sep. p._ 4.
KING, KATE (dau. of T. C. King, actor). _b._ Camden-town, London
1852; appeared with her brother Harry King (who _d._ 17 May 1870
aged 19) as Irish duettists and dancers with Dr. Corri’s diorama
of Ireland; played at the Alhambra and other music halls in
London; member of Arthur Lloyd’s concert party in his “Two hours
fun” entertainment to 1870; played in burlesque at Vaudeville
theatre; _m._ 31 July 1871 Arthur Lloyd comic singer; acted at
Queen’s theatre, Dublin during her husband’s lesseeship 1874–6,
toured with his Ballyvogan company playing her original part
of Norah O’Sullivan in his drama Ballyvogan, autumn seasons of
1887–90, a part she played upwards of 500 times; last appeared
in London at Oxford music hall 20 March 1891; last appeared on
the stage at Moss’s Varieties, Edinburgh 7 April 1891. _d._ 3
Priory villas, Byrne road, Balham, Surrey 2 May 1891. _bur._
Abney park cemetery 7 May.
KING, MITCHELL. _b._ Crail, Fifeshire 8 June 1783; landed in
Charlestown, U.S. America 17 Nov. 1805, schoolmaster 1806;
assistant teacher Charlestown coll. 1 March 1806, principal
of the college 1810; admitted to the bar 1810; a founder of
the Philosophical Soc. 1809; judge of the city court 1819 and
1842–44; LL.D. of Charlestown coll. 1857; author of The culture
of the olive 1846, and of many essays and addresses. _d._ Flat
Rock, South Carolina 12 Nov. 1862.
KING, PETER JOHN LOCKE (2 son of 7 baron King 1775–1833). _b._
Ockham, Surrey 25 Jany. 1811; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll.
Camb., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1833; contested East Surrey 1837; M.P.
for East Surrey 11 Aug. 1847 to 26 Jany. 1874; got Real Estate
charges act known as Locke-King’s act passed 11 Aug. 1854 and
Act to abolish property qualifications of members of parliament
passed 28 June 1858; defeated and caused resignation of Russell
ministry on motion to reduce franchise in counties to £10, 20
Feb. 1851; author of Injustice of the law of succession to the
real property of intestates 1854, 3 ed. 1855. _d._ Brooklands,
Weybridge 12 Nov. 1885. _Statesmen of England_ (1862) _No.
46_, _portrait_; _Drawing-room portrait gallery_, _2nd series_
(1859), _portrait_.
KING, PHILIP PARKER (1 son of Philip Gidley King 1758–1808,
governor of New South Wales). _b._ Norfolk island 13 Dec. 1791;
entered navy Nov. 1807; captain 25 Feb. 1830, surveyed the
Southern coasts of America 1826–30 and Patagonia, the Straits
of Magellan and Terra del Fuego 1830; retired R.A. 27 Sep. 1855
being first native of Australia so honoured; a nominee member of
legislative council 1829; member for Gloucester and Macquarie
1851 to death; chairman of denominational board of education;
manager of Australian Agricultural Society 1831; F.R.S. 26 Feb.
1824; published Narrative of a survey of the inter-tropical and
western coasts of Australia 1827; A voyage to Torres straits
in search of the survivors of the ship Charles Eaton by C. M.
Lewis, arranged by P. P. King 1837. _d._ Grantham, North Shore,
Sydney, New South Wales 26 Feb. 1856. _Fitzroy’s Voyages of
the Adventurer and Beagle_ (1839); _Proc. of Linnæan society_
(1856) 28–31; _Rev. J. E. T. Wood’s History of the Discovery of
Australia_, _i_ 246–304 (1865).
KING, RICHARD. _b._ about 1811; ed. at Guy’s and St. Thomas’s
hospitals; M.R.C.S. 1832; L.S.A. 1832, member of court of
examiners; hon. M.D. New York 1833; surgeon and naturalist to
Back’s expedition to mouth of Great Fish river 1833–5; issued
prospectus which originated Ethnological Soc. 20 July 1842, the
first sec. 1844; assistant surgeon to the Resolute in expedition
sent out to search for sir John Franklin 1850, arctic medal
1857; edited The Medical Times some time; author of Narrative
of a journey to the shore of the Arctic ocean under command
of captain Back 2 vols. 1836; The preservation of children in
delivery 1847; The Franklin expedition from first to last 1855;
The causes of death in the still-born 1858; The Manx of the
Isle of Man 1870; The Laplanders 1871. _d._ 1 Blandford st.
Manchester sq. London 7 Feb. 1876.
KING, RICHARD JOHN (eld. son of Richard King of Pennycross, _d._
April 1829). _b._ Montpelier, Pennycross, Plymouth 18 Jany.
1818; ed. at Exeter college, Oxf., B.A. 1841; collected a fine
library which he sold 1854; member of Devonshire Association
1874, pres. 1875; author of Selections from the early ballad
poetry 1842; Anschar: a story of the north. Plymouth 1850,
anon.; wrote for John Murray, A handbook for travellers in
Kent and Sussex 1858, 1863, 1868, 1877; A handbook for Surrey,
Hampshire and the Isle of Wight 1858, 1865, 1870; Handbook
to the cathedrals of England 6 vols. 1864–81; Handbook for
Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk and Cambridge 1870; Handbooks to the
cathedrals of Wales 1873; author of Sketches and Studies 1874 a
selection of his articles to Saturday Review, Quarterly Review
and Fraser’s Mag. _d._ The Limes, Crediton, Devon 10 Feb. 1879,
memorial window Crediton ch. _Devon Assoc. Trans. xi_ 58–60
(1879).
KING, RICHARD THOMAS. _b._ 1785 or 1786; 2 lieut. R.A. 8 Sep.
1803, lieut. col. 10 Jany. 1837, retired on full pay 22 July
1840; L.G. 27 June 1864. _d._ 21 Argyll st. London 5 Dec. 1866.
KING, ROBERT TURNER. _b._ Leicestershire 1824; ed. Emmanuel
coll. Camb., B.A. 1849; as a point at cricket was far famed,
could cover an immense deal of ground and make wonderful
catches; played at Lord’s, Undergraduates of Cambridge _v._
Marylebone 8 June 1846; C. of Fridaybridge near Wisbeach 1871–5;
V. of Fridaybridge 1880 to death. _d._ Bootle, Lancashire 12 May
1884. _Lillywhite’s Cricket scores_, _iii_ 387 (1863).
KING, SAMUEL WILLIAM (eld. son of rev. Wm. Hutchinson King,
V. of Nuneaton, Warws.) _b._ 20 Sep. 1821; ed. at St. Cath.
coll. Camb., B.A. 1845, M.A. 1853; R of Saxlingham-Nethergate,
Norfolk 1851 to death; an entomologist and geologist; F.R.G.S.
1858; F.G.S. 1860; author of The Italian valleys of the Pennine
Alps 1858; left his collection of Norfolk fossil mammalia to
Museum of practical geology, London. _d._ Pontresina 8 July
1868. _Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxv_ 29 (1869).
KING, THOMAS. _b._ 1777 or 1778; entered Madras army 1799; col.
19 Madras N.I. 1845 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. _d._ Louisa
terrace, Exmouth 29 Dec. 1859.
KING, THOMAS. _b._ Silver st. Stepney, London 14 Aug. 1835; in
the navy a short time; foreman of labourers at Victoria Docks,
London; beat Tom Truckle of Portsmouth £50 a side, 49 rounds in
62 minutes 27 Nov. 1860; beat Wm. Evans known as Young Broome
£50 a side, 43 rounds in 42 minutes 21 Oct. 1861; beaten by
James Mace £200 a side, 43 rounds in 68 minutes 28 Jany. 1862;
beat James Mace £200 a side and the championship, 21 rounds in
38 minutes 26 Nov. 1862; resigned the championship and would not
fight Mace again; fought John Camel Heenan for £1000 a side and
the championship at Wadhurst, Kent 10 Dec. 1863 when King won in
24 rounds lasting 35 minutes, this fight brought him in by means
of stakes and presents nearly £4000; stood 6 feet 2¼ inches and
weighed 176 lbs.; a bookmaker 1863 to death; sculled races on
the river 1867; took many prizes at flower shows in and around
London. _d._ of bronchitis at Clarence house, Clarence road,
Clapham, London 4 Oct. 1888, value of his personalty declared
at £54,472. _H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica_, _iii_ 490–518 (1881),
_portrait_; _Modern Boxing, By Pendragon_ [_Henry Sampson_]
(1879) 43–50, 57–78; _Sporting Times 13 March 1875_, _portrait_;
_W. E. Harding’s Champions of the American prize ring_ (1888)
54–9, _portrait_.
KING, THOMAS WILLIAM. _b._ 21 June 1801; F.S.A. 14 Jany. 1836,
on library committee 1853–65, a contributor to the Archæologia
and to the Proceedings of the Soc. of Antiquaries; Rouge Dragon
pursuivant, Herald’s Office, London 20 May 1833 to 17 June 1848,
York Herald 17 June 1848 to death; wrote Lancashire Funeral
certificates, Chetham Society vol. 75 (1869); The pedigree of
sir Philip Sidney. By R. Cooke. The restorations made by T. W.
King 1869. _d._ Leicester road, New Barnett 4 Feb. 1872.
KING, Walker (son of Walker King 1751–1827, bishop of
Rochester). _b._ St. Marylebone, London 1798; ed. at Westminster
and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1822; R of Stone, Kent
6 July 1822 to death; P.C. of Bromley, Kent 1824–7; preb. of
Rochester 1827 to death; archdeacon of Rochester 25 June 1827 to
death, installed 6 July 1827; author of The revival of diocesan
synods, a charge 1838. _d._ Woodside, Stone, Kent 13 March 1859.
KING, WILLIAM (son of rev. John King, master of Ipswich gr.
sch.) _b._ Ipswich 17 April 1786; ed. at Peterhouse coll. Camb.,
fellow 1806–21; B.A. 1809, M.A. 1812, M.D. 1819; F.R.C.P.
1820, delivered Harveian oration 1843; lived at Brighton
1823 to death; wrote a small monthly periodical entitled
The Co-operator, May 1828 to July 1830; consulting phys. to
Sussex county hospital 1842–61; published Observations on the
artificial mineral waters of Dr. Struve prepared at Brighton
1826; The Institutions of De Fellenberg 1842; Medical Essays
1850. _d._ 23 Montpellier road, Brighton 19 Oct. 1865. _Munk’s
College of physicians_, _iii_ 226–7 (1878).
KING, WILLIAM. Art dealer and broker in London. _d._ 19 Ovington
gardens, London 24 April 1884, will proved 9 July exceeding
£136,000; left £100,000, 3 per cent. consols, to St. George’s
hospital, London on condition that one ward should always be
called the William King ward. _The Times 19 July 1884 p._ 6.
KING, WILLIAM. _b._ Hartlepool, Durham, April 1809; curator of
Museum of natural history at Newcastle-on-Tyne 1841–9, lecturer
on geology in school of medicine there; professor of geology
Queen’s college, Galway 1849–83 and professor of natural history
there 1882–3, emeritus professor of geology, mineralogy and
natural history there 1883 to death; the first D.Sc. of Queen’s
Univ. of Ireland 1870; author of Monograph of the Permian
fossils, published by Palæontographical Soc. London 1850. _d._
Glenoir, Taylor’s Hill, Galway 24 June 1886. _Nature 1 July 1886
p._ 200.
KING, WILLIAM SMYTH. _b._ 1809; incumbent of Carlow to death;
canon of St. Patrick’s cath. Dublin to death; dean of Leighlin
1877 to death. _d._ Carlow 30 Dec. 1889.
KING, WILLIAM THOMAS POOLE (son of Thomas King). _b._ 1805 or
1806; member of Bristol town council many years; sheriff of
Bristol 1871; master of Merchant Venturers’ soc.; one of the
pioneers of the West Africa commerce with England; led a party
of men armed with cutlasses against the Bristol rioters in 1831;
director of Bristol and Exeter railway co. 1836; a founder and
member of Bristol Engineer volunteer corps 16 April 1861. _d._
Avonside, Clifton 13 Sep. 1887.
KING-CHURCH, HENRY JOHN. _b._ 1787; employed in Tower of London;
took additional name of Church by r.l. 13 Feb. 1849; apostle
of the Irvingite or Catholic Apostolic church 14 Dec. 1833 to
death, Denmark, Holland and Belgium were assigned to his care.
_d._ Albury, Surrey 16 Sep. 1865. _E. Miller’s History of
Irvingism i_ 139, 167, 181, 294 (1878).
KINGCOME, SIR JOHN (son of Henry Kingcome). _b._ Revelstoke,
Devon 14 Feb. 1794; entered navy 28 May 1808, captain 28 June
1838; present at signature of treaty of peace with China 29 Aug.
1842; captain of the Royal William 120 guns 16 Feb. 1854 to 18
June 1856; granted good service pension 1 Nov. 1854; R.A. of the
Blue 10 Sep. 1857; commander in chief in the Pacific 31 Oct.
1862 to 10 May 1864; retired admiral 10 Sep. 1869; K.C.B. 28
March 1865. _d._ 5 Windsor villas, Plymouth 7 Aug. 1871. _I.L.N.
lix_ 187 (1871).
KINGDOM, JOHN M. _b._ London; solicitor; wrote the following
plays, Marcoretti; Madeline; Which is my husband; The old ferry
house; Three musketeers; Giraldo; Tancred; The crusaders;
The old house on the Thames; The three princes, a romantic
extravaganza, Surrey theatre 1 April 1850; The fountain of
beauty, or the king, the princess and the geni, a fairy
extravaganza, Drury Lane 5 Sep. 1853; Queen Mary, a drama by A.
Tennyson, with full stage directions 1875. _d._ New York 24 July
1876.
KINGDON, EMMELINE MARIA (youngest dau. of rev. Thomas Hockin
Kingdon, R. of Pyworthy, Devon 1808 until his death 31 Jany.
1853 aged 78). Lady superintendent of the Royal School for the
daughters of officers of the army, Lansdowne, Bath 1864–82 when
she became paralysed; the school attained a high reputation
through her energy and judgment. _d._ 1 Dynham road, West
Hampstead, London 25 March 1890. _bur._ Paddington cemet. 29
March.