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KING, JAMES, brother of Walker King (adm. 1811, qv); bapt. St. Mary, St. Marylebone Road 25 Dec 1801 (IGI); adm. Lady Day 1814; KS (aged 14) 1815; left Easter 1816; Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. 15 Dec 1818; BA 1822; MA 1825; ordained deacon (Rochester) 1825, priest (Bath and Wells) 1825; Rector of Longfield, Kent, from 24 Jun 1825; Vicar of Frindsbury, Kent 31 Aug 1825; Rector of Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, 18 Dec 1825; m. 30 Jul 1825 Maria, eldest dau. of Lieut. -Col. Hon. George Carleton, Inspector of Militia, Canada; d. 21 Jun 1864.

KING, JOHN, son of Philip King, Worminghall, Bucks., Page to Henry VIII, and Elizabeth, dau. of Edmund Conquest, Houghton Conquest, Beds.; b.; adm.; QS; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1576, Westminster Student 18 Jun 1577-91; BA 26 Jan 1679/80; MA 15 Feb 1582/3 (incorp. Cambridge 1584); BD 1591; DD 1601; Proctor 1589; ordained; Domestic Chaplain to Most Rev. John Piers, Archbishop of York; Prebendary of Salisbury 17 Feb 1589 – c. Mar 1590; Archdeacon of Nottingham 12 Aug 1590- Sep 1611; Rector of St. Andrew’s, Holborn 10 May 1597-1611; Prebendary of St. Paul’s 16 Aug 1599- Sep 1611; Chaplain in Ordinary to Elizabeth I and James I; Dean of Christ Church, Oxford 4 Aug 1605-11; Vice-Chancellor, Oxford Univ. 1607-11; Prebendary of Lincoln 16 Dec 1610- Sep 1611; consecrated Bishop of London 8 Sep 1611; a learned divine and styled by James I “the King of Preachers”; the last bishop to burn a heretic (Thompson, Christ Church, 47); m. Joan, dau. of Henry Freeman, Staffs.; d. 30 Mar 1621.

KING, JOHN, second son of John King (elected to Oxford 1576, qv); b. 1595; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1608, matr. 20 Jan 1608/9, Westminster Student to 1619; BA 1611; MA 1614; BD and DD 1625; Public Orator14 Dec 1622-5; ordained; Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, from 28 Aug 1624; Canon of Windsor from 6 Aug 1625; Rector of Remenham, Berks., 1625; m. Mary, widow of Benjamin Baron, St. Andrew Undershaft, London, citizen and grocer, and dau. of William Harrison, London; d. 2 Jan 1638/9. Buried Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. DNB. [Note however that there may be some confusion between the respective preferments of this John King and those of Rev. John King DD, Prebendary of Westminster 15 Sep 1613 – death 7 Aug 1638, also Canon of Windsor from 23 Nov 1615 and Prebendary of St. Paul’s from 23 Dec 1616, father of next (qv)].

KING, JOHN, son of Rev. John King DD, Prebendary of Westminster and Rector of Stourton, Wilts., and Elizabeth, dau. of Richard Foxcroft, Fellow of St. John’s Coll. Cambridge; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1625, matr. 3 Feb 1625/6, aged 18, Westminster Student to between 1636 and 1641; BA 1629; MA 1632; m. Judith ---; living Mar 1648/9.

KING, NEVILLE, eldest son of John King, Ashby-de-la-Launde, Lincs., Capt., 3rd [Foot ?] Guards, and Millicent Mary, sister of John Fox (qv); bapt. Ashby de la Launde, Lincs. 28 Nov 1752 (IGI); adm. 14 Feb 1766; KS (aged 14) 1768; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1772, adm. pens. 17 Jun 1772, scholar 7 May 1773, matr. 1775; BA 1776; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 27 May 1772; High Sheriff, Lincolnshire 1816; racehorse owner; m. 22 May 1786 Sarah, dau. of Thomas Gildart, Finchley, Middlesex, and Norton Hall, Staffs.; buried 25 Jun 1833.

KING, ROBERT; b. ; adm. ; KS 12 Aug 1549 (Acts of Chapter).

KING, ROBERT; b.; adm.; KS; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1624, but never adm.

King, Ronald Mellowes, son of Ernest King of Harrow-on-the-Hill and Ellen Blanche, d. of Joseph Mellowes of East Molesey, Surrey; b. 28 Nov. 1905; adm. Sept. 1919 (A), KS Sept. 1920; left July 1924; King's Coll. Camb., matric. 1924, BA 1927, MA 1931; asst master Bryanston Sch. 1928; Dorset Regt 1940, released for civil duties Nov. 1944; m. 12 Aug. 1931 Kathleen, sister of George Patrick Maguire (qv); d. 19 Dec. 1986.

KING, WALKER, eldest son of Walker King (qv); b. 21 Dec 1827; adm. 3 Apr 1839 (Scott's); QS 1840; left 1840; Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. 5 Mar 1846; rowed in Oxford eight at Henley 1847; BA 1850; MA 1853; ordained deacon 1850, priest 1851 (both Canterbury); Curate, Stone, Kent 1850-9; Rector of Leigh, Essex, from 1859; Hon. Canon, St. Albans 1882; m. 28 Dec 1850 Juliana, eldest dau. of Capt. Henry Stuart, 69th Foot; d. 20 Jul 1892.

KING, WALKER, eldest son of Right Rev. Walker King DD, Bishop of Rochester, and Sarah, only dau. of Edward Dawson, Long Whatton, Leics.; b.; adm. Mich. 1811; KS (aged 13) 1812; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1816, but went to Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. 24 May 1816; BA 1821; MA 1822; ordained 1822; Rector of Stone, Kent, from 6 Jul 1822; Rector of Frindsbury, Kent 27 Jan 1823-5; Perpetual Curate of Bromley, Kent 1824-7; Vicar of Dartford, Kent 9 Apr 1825 (disp. to hold with R. Stone); Archdeacon and Prebendary of Rochester from 25 Jun 1827, but did not obtain stall as Prebendary until Jan 1832 (see King v Baylay, Barnewall and Adolphus, i, 761); m. 15 May 1823 Anne, sister of William Heberden (adm. 1809, qv), by whom he was father of Right Rev. Edward King DD, Bishop of Lincoln; d. 13 Mar 1859.