KING, WILLIAM; b.; adm. (aged 11) Jul 1735; left 1740.
KING, WILLIAM, fourth son of Rev. John King, Witnesham, Suffolk, Head Master Ipswich GS, and Elizabeth Sarah, dau. of Rev. Thomas Bishop, Vicar of St. Mary-le-Tower, Ipswich, Suffolk; b. 17 Apr 1786; adm. Oct 1801 (Clapham); took part of Iago in performance of Othello by “the Clapham fellows at Dawsons” 7 Dec 1803 (Lord John Russell’s MS diary); left Jan 1804; Trinity Coll. Oxford, matr. 16 Feb 1804, but did not go into residence; remained at Westminster until he left Christmas 1806; Peterhouse, Cambridge, matr. 27 Dec 1806; BA and 12th Wrangler 1809; MA 1812; Fellow, Peterhouse 1812; MD 1819; St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; FRCP 1820, Harveian Orator 1843; practised at Brighton, Sussex, from 1823; the friend and adviser of Lady Byron, who left a sum of money for the publication of his works; a staunch advocate of co-operation, editing The Co-operator 1828-30; author of papers on medical subjects; m. 17 Jan 1821 Mary, dau. of Rev. Thomas Redman Hooker DD, Vicar of Rottingdean, Sussex; d. 20 Oct 1865. DNB.
KING, WILLIAM, son of Ezekiel King, Clerkenwell, London, and Elizabeth, dau. of Nicholas Backhouse, St. Helen’s, Bishopsgate, London; b.; adm.; KS 1678; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1681, matr. 16 Dec 1681, aged 18, Westminster Student 19 Dec 1681 – Dec 1693, Faculty Student from 23 Dec 1693; BA 1685; MA 1688 (incorp. Cambridge 1705); BCL and DCL 1692; adm. advocate, Doctors’ Commons 12 Nov 1692; Vicar-General, Armagh 1692; Judge of Admiralty Court (I) 1701; Writer of Gazette Dec 1711 – c. Jul 1712; an able but indolent man, of strong Tory and High Church views, a moderate poet and a witty miscellaneous writer; known by contemporaries as “King of the Commons”; according to Johnson, “though his life had not been without irregularity, his principles were pure and orthodox, and his death was pious” (Lives of the Poets, ed. G. B. Hill, ii, 31); author of an attack upon Bentley entitled Dialogues of the Dead, 1699, and other books and pamphlets; a collection of his Original Works, ed. Nichols, was published in 1776; d. 25 Dec 1712. Buried North Cloister, Westminster Abbey. DNB.
KING, WILLIAM MANSFIELD, brother of Charles Lewis King (qv); b. 9 May 1814; adm. 13 Oct 1823 (Singleton's); in Civil Service for forty years [in General Post Office ?]; Assistant Surveyor, Eastern District Gas (1881 Census); m. 1841 Emily Rose, second dau. of Dr Henry Percy, Upper Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, London; d. 13 Jul 1890.
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.
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, THOMAS; b.; in school list Dec 1736.
KING, THOMAS; b.; adm.; BB c. 25 Mar 1654/5 – 25 Mar 1658/9; two undated petitions by Margaret Bigg, widow, to the Governors, are on behalf of her grandson Thomas King, “a schollar in the College Schoole almost these two yeares”, who is “lame of one arme, and is a child inclinable to learne and very hopefull” (Chapter Muniments 43080 a, b); an accompanying testimonial from Busby certifies “the qualitie and proficiencie of my scholar Thomas King”.
KING, THOMAS, son of Thomas King, London; b.; adm. (aged 7) Apr 1741 (Preston's); left 1751; Merton Coll. Oxford, matr. 20 Aug 1751; BA 1757. [perhaps Thomas King ordained deacon (Peterborough) 25 Sep 1757].
KING, THOMAS; b.; adm. (aged 9) Jan 1728/9; left 1733.