KING, ROBERT; b. ; adm. ; KS 12 Aug 1549 (Acts of Chapter).
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, 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, 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 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, 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, ISAAC, son of Isaac King, High Wycombe, Bucks., and Elizabeth Shrimpton; b. 21 Mar 1776; adm. 17 Jul 1787; KS 1791; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1795, adm. pens. 2 Jun 1795, aged 19, scholar 8 Apr 1796, matr. 1796; migr. to Trinity Hall, Cambridge; LLB 1801; ordained; Perpetual Curate of St. Leonard’s, Bucks., 1802, and of Lee, Bucks.; Vicar of High Wycombe, Bucks., from 13 Mar 1805; Rector of Halton, Bucks., 16 Jul 1805-26; Chaplain to Prince Regent; m. 23 Jun 1803 Hester Maria, dau. of William Beeston Coyte MD, Ipswich, Suffolk; d. 20 Jan 1832.
KING, HENRY, eldest son of John King (elected to Oxford 1576, qv); bapt. 16 Jan 1591/2; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1608, matr. 20 Jan 1608/9, aged 17, Westminster Student to 1616; BA 1611; MA 1614; BD and DD 1625; ordained; Prebendary of St. Paul’s 24 Jan 1615/6 – Feb 1641/2; Archdeacon of Colchester 10 Apr 1617 – Feb 1641/2; Rector of Fulham, Middlesex 18 Nov 1618 – Feb 1641/2; Chaplain to James I; Canon of Christ Church, Oxford 3 Mar 1623/4 – Feb 1641/2; Dean of Rochester 6 Feb 1638/9 – Feb 1641/2; consecrated Bishop of Chichester 6 Feb 1641/2; ejected during the Commonwealth and reinstated at the Restoration; the old altar books of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, were presented by him in 1638 (Thompson, Christ Church, 258); friend of Ben Jonson (qv), Isaac Walton and John Donne; author, Poems, 1657; m. Anne, eldest dau. of Robert Berkeley; d. 30 Sep 1669. DNB.
King, Henry Vernon, son of Henry John King FCA, Treasurer Gravesend BC, and Dorothy Margaret, d. of John Hanks Cooper of Gravesend; b. 2 May 1918; adm. Sept. 1931 (R), KS Sept. 1932; left July 1936; RAFVR in WW2 (Flt Lieut.), regazetted FO 1948; AFRAeS 1948; aircraft designer De Havilland Aircraft Co. 1946-59; project designer Plessey Co. 1959-80; tech. co-ordinator Marconi Underwater Systems Ltd 1980-3; retd 1983; m. 12 Dec. 1942 Yvonne Peta, d. of Mrs E. D. Caine of Hoddesdon, Herts; d. 11 Aug. 2008.
KING, ERASMUS, son of Erasmus King, St. Martin’s in the Fields, Westminster, and Elizabeth ---; b. 13 Jan 1744; adm.; KS (aged 12) 1758; at Charterhouse Sch. 1758-61; Pembroke Coll. Oxford, matr. 28 Apr 1761; BA 1765; ordained; Vicar of Upper and Lower Guiting, Gloucs., from 1769; m. (by 1771) Mary --- (IGI); d. 1 Mar 1777 (M. I. Temple Guiting, Gloucs. ).