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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.

KEENE, TALBOT, son of William Keene, Dublin; b.; adm.; KS (aged 14) 1752; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1757, adm. pens. 9 Jun 1757, scholar 21 Apr 1758, matr. 1758; BA 1761; MA 1770; ordained deacon (Lincoln) 21 Sep 1761, priest (Winchester) 3 Oct 1762; Curate, Great Bookham, Surrey 1762; Chaplain, Royal Navy 1770; Vicar of Brigstock-cum-Stanion, Northants, from 2 Apr 1773; Rector of Tadmarton, Oxfordshire, from 16 Apr 1778 [or 1788 : check]; author, Miscellaneous Pieces, 1787; m. Hester ---; d. 26 Feb 1824.

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.

LITTLETON, ADAM, sixth son of Rev. Thomas Littleton, Vicar of Halesowen, Worcs.; b. 2 Nov 1627; adm.; KS 1641; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1644, Westminster Student; expelled by Parliamentary Visitors, but seems to have come back into residence, for in May 1651 he petitioned for restitution of his Craven Scholarship, which had been sequestered; DD 1670; an Usher at the School; Under Master 1658-61, resigned; started a school at Chelsea; ordained deacon and priest 10 Mar 1665 (Winchester); Rector of Chelsea, Middlesex, from 3 Feb 1669/70; Chaplain in Ordinary to Charles II, James II and William III from 1670 (still listed as such Miege1691); granted reversion of Head Mastership of the School after the death of Richard Busby (qv), 1670; Prebendary of Westminster from 16 Sep 1674; Rector of Overton, Hampshire, from 1683; Perpetual Curate of St. Botolph’s, Aldersgate, London 27 Mar 1685-9; a man of considerable learning and a collector of books and manuscripts; author of a Latin dictionary in four parts, 1673, and other works; said to have been the author of Tragi-Comoedia Oxoniensis, also attributed to John Carrick (qv); m. 1st, 6 Mar 1665/6 Elizabeth Scudamore, St. Andrew Undershaft, London; m. 2nd, 7 Feb 1666/7 Susan, dau. of Thomas Rich, St. Andrew Undershaft, London, citizen and mercer; m. 3rd, Susan, dau. of Richard Guildford, Chelsea, Middlesex; d. 30 Jun 1694. DNB.

LLOYD, PIERSON, son of Thomas Lloyd, Westminster; b.; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 13) 1717; KS 1718; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1722, adm. pens. 25 may 1722, scholar 3 May 1723; BA 1725/6; MA 1729; DD Lambeth 12 Jun 1771; an Usher at the School c. 1724-48; Under Master 1748 (patent sealed 22 Apr 1749) – 28 May 1771, res.; ordained deacon 8 Mar 1729, priest 18 May 1730 (both Gloucester); Rector of Croughton, Northants 25 Mar 1732-79; Rector of Eastleach Martin, Gloucs., Sep – Nov 1733; Rector of Waddesdon, Bucks., first portion, from 17 Dec 1733; Prebendary of York 4 Sep 1777- Aug 1780, Chancellor from 9 Aug 1780; William Cowper (qv), out of “affection for the worthy man whom they celebrate” translated the Latin verses by William Vincent (qv) to Lloyd’s memory, spoken in Hall at the Election of 1781 (Cowper, Works, i, 61 and x, 213-5; Lusus Alteri Westmon., 1st series, 286-7); m. Anne, dau. of Rev. John Maximilian De L’Angle, Rector of Croughton, Northants; d. 5 Jan 1781. Buried East Cloister, Westminster Abbey. [Mother probably Sarah Pierson (IGI)]

LLOYD, CHARLES, son of Capt. Philip Lloyd MP, Greenwich, Kent, afterwards of St. Martin’s in the Fields, Westminster, Equerry to George II, and Catherine Cade; bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields Feb 1734 (IGI); adm.; KS 1749; Capt. of the School 1753; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1754, but went to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 18 Jun 1754; BA 1758; MA 1761; Paymaster of Gentlemen Pensioners 7 Mar 1761 – 29 Jun 1765; Assistant Under-Secretary, Secretary of State’s Office Jun 1762 – c. Sep 1763; Private Secretary to Right Hon. George Grenville MP, Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury Jun 1763 – Jul 1765; Under Clerk, Treasury, from 29 Aug 1763; Deputy Teller, Exchequer, from 1767; FSA 17 Nov 1763; absurdly suspected by Lord North of being the author of Junius’s Letters; author of a number of pamphlets in Grenville’s interest; d. 22 Jan 1773. DNB. [Mother presumably a sister of Salusbury Cade (qv), his predecessor as Paymaster of Gentlemen Pensioners].

LUCK (or LUCKE), ROBERT, son of Thomas Luck, Newport, Isle of Wight; b. 10 Jun 1674; adm.; KS 1689; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1692, matr. 2 Jul 1692, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1692 – void 1706; BA 23 Mar 1696/7; MA 1700; Master of Barnstaple Sch., Devon 1698-1740; among his pupils was John Gay; ordained; Vicar of West Down, Devon, from 1713; Vicar of Buckland Brewer, Devon, from 2 Jul 1744; author, A Miscellany of new Poems, 1736, which includes an English version of one of Martial’s epigrams, dated “Westminster School, 3d Form, 1686”; m. 19 Jan 1700 [check] Mary, dau. of William Medford, Barnstaple, Devon; buried Barnstaple, Devon 17 Jan 1747/8.

MAITTAIRE, MICHAEL, son of Michel Maittaire, Rouen, Normandy, France; b. 29 Nov 1668; his parents settled in England after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes; adm.; KS 1682; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 16 Oct 1688, aged 18, Canoneer Student 7 Jul 1693 – void 1706; BA 1694; MA 23 Mar 1696/7 (incorp. Cambridge 1708); Under Master of the School 1695-9; kept a private boarding school at Mile End; a non-juror (Hearne, Collections iii, 320), declining to take orders in Church of England; librarian to Sir Richard Ellys, Bart.; tutor to Philip Stanhope (adm. 1743, qv), the illegitimate son of Lord Chesterfield; a classical scholar and historian of typography; the sale of his library occupied 44 evenings; edited classical texts; author, Annales Typographiae, 1719-41, and other works; d. 7 Sep 1747. DNB.

LLUELLYN, MARTIN, eighth son of Martin Lluellyn, London; b. 12 Dec 1616; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1636, matr. 25 Jul 1636, Westminster Student to ejection by Parliamentary Visitors 13 Oct 1648; BA 1640; MA 1643; MD 1653; served as Capt. in Royalist Army; practised as a physician in London; FRCP 27 May 1659; Principal of St. Mary Hall, Oxford 1660-4; a Visitor of the University 31 Jul 1660; left Oxford in 1664 to practise as a physician at High Wycombe, Bucks., of which he was Mayor in 1671; author Men Miracles, with other poems, 1646, and of other volumes of poetry; m. 1st 7 Mar 1649/50 Lettice, widow of Isaac Tully, St. Dunstan in the West, London; m. 2nd, ---; m. 3rd, 2 Aug 1662 Martha, dau. of George Long, Penn, Bucks.; d. 17 Mar 1681/2. DNB.

LOWER, RICHARD, second son of Humphrey Lower, Tremeere, Bodmin, Cornwall, and Margery, dau. of Richard Billing, Hengar, St. Tudy, Cornwall; bapt. 29 Jan 1631/2; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1649, matr. 27 Feb 1650/1, Westminster Student; BA 17 Feb 1652/3; MA 1655; MB and MD 1665; assisted Dr. Willis in the preparation of his book Cerebri Anatome Nervorumque Descriptio et Usus, 1664; left Oxford in 1666 and commenced medical practice in London; the most noted physician of his day; FRS 17 Oct 1667; FRCP 29 Jul 1675; a pronounced Whig in politics; a skilful anatomist and experimental physiologist; the first to transfuse blood from one animal into the veins of another; author, Tractatus de Corde, 1669, and two other medical treatises; m. 17 Nov 1666 (IGI) his cousin Elizabeth, widow of Samuel Trelawny, and dau. of John Billing, Hengar, St. Tudy, Cornwall; d. 17 Jan 1690/1. DNB.