John King (bishop)

John King was born at St Columb Major in Cornwall, May the 1st 1652. He was patron of the Church of Pertenhall in Bedfordshire.

The son of John King of Manaccan, Cornwall. He matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford as a poor scholar on 7 July 1674. He graduated BA in 1678 and proceeded MA in 1681. He took the degree of Doctor in Divinity in 1698 at St Catharine's College, Cambridge where his friend Sir William Dawes was master. He had the curacy of Bray in Berkshire, by his second wife he acquired the patronage of Pertenhall in Bedfordshire, and was instituted in that rectory in June 1690. In 1694 he exchanged to Chelsea. in 1731 he was collated to the prebend of Wighton in York Cathedral by Sir William Dawes, Archbishop.

King died at Church Lane, Chelsea, on 30 May 1732, and was buried in the chancel of Pertenhall church on 13 June; a large mural monument was erected to his memory. His wife died at Chelsea on 22 June 1727, aged sixty-one, and was also buried at Pertenhall. King was survived by three sons, among them the classical scholar and physician John King (1696–1728), and three daughters.

His publications

* Sermon on the 30th of January, being the day on which that sacred martyr, King Charles I, was murdered.
* Sermon preached at the funeral of Sir Willoughby Chamberlain, Kt. who died at his house at Chelsea, December 6 and was interred at the parish church of St. James Garlick Hith, London, December 12, 1697
* Animadversions on a Letter of Advice to the Nonconformists
* The case of John Atherton, Bishop of Waterford in Ireland
* "Tolando Pseudologo Mastrix", or a Currycomb for a lying Coxcomb (being an answer to a late piece of John Toland (philosopher) called "Hypatia")

The family of Dr. King bears the same arms with Robert King, the first Bishop of Oxford, of whom there is a curious full length portrait in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford: a lion rampant crowned and three croplets or, in a field sable with the motto "Atavis Regibus"

Some of his manuscripts by Dr. King, are among the Sloane collection in the British Museum.

From: 'Chelsea: (part 1 of 3)', The Environs of London: volume 2: County of Middlesex (1795), pp. 70-115. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=45406. Date accessed: 26 July 2007.

References

"Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising Biographical Memoirs of William Bowyer" ... - Page 752 by John Nichols, Samuel Bentley - History - 1812 [http://www.google.co.uk/books?id=xdkcAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA752&dq=JOHN+king++st+columb]