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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.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.