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).